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Anarcestes simulans

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anarcestidae

Taxonomy
Goniatites simulans was named by Barrande (1865). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Praha-Hlubocepy (upper Trebotov limestone, Dalejan), which is in an Emsian carbonate limestone in the Trebotov Formation of Czechia.

It was recombined as Anarcestes simulans by Chlupac and Turek (1983), Korn and Klug (2002), Klug (2002).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Goniatites simulans Barrande
1983Anarcestes simulans Chlupac and Turek p. 96 figs. Pl 23, figs 1-12; text-fig 23
2002Anarcestes simulans Klug fig. 34P
2002Anarcestes simulans Korn and Klug p. 129

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderAnarcestinaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyAnarcestaceaeSteinmann 1890
familyAnarcestidaeSteinmann 1890
genusAnarcestesMojsisovics 1882
speciessimulans(Barrande 1865)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Anarcestes simulans Barrande 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height64.692.1013.05.354.05
shell diameter614.06.6035.014.811.2
shell inflation65.542.8011.05.903.55

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-10-06 14:38:07
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:38:07
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Emsian to the top of the Eifelian or 399.50000 to 387.95000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Devonian419.62 - 393.47Czechia (Barrandia) Anarcestes simulans (12183)
Early/Lower Devonian - Eifelian419.62 - 387.95Czechia Anarcestes simulans (12148 12149)
Late/Upper Emsian399.5 - 393.47Czechia Anarcestes simulans (173002) Goniatites simulans (172686)
Late/Upper Emsian399.5 - 393.47Morocco Anarcestes simulans (38783 38796)
Late/Upper Emsian - Eifelian399.5 - 387.95Czechia Anarcestes simulans (172682 172683)
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95Morocco Anarcestes simulans (38755)