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Fidelites occultus

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Agoniatitidae

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

It was recombined as Agoniatites (Fidelites) occultus by Chlupac and Turek (1983), Göddertz (1987); it was recombined as Fidelites occultus by Korn and Klug (2002), Nikolaeva (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Goniatites occultus Barrande figs. Pl 9, figs 14-17
1983Agoniatites (Fidelites) occultus Chlupac and Turek p. 49 figs. Pl 13, figs 7-16; text-fig 8
1987Agoniatites (Fidelites) occultus Göddertz p. 148 figs. Pl 3, figs 4-7; text-fig 10
2002Fidelites occultus Korn and Klug p. 81
2017Fidelites occultus Nikolaeva figs. Pl 2, figs 1,4,5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderAgoniatitinaRuzhencev 1957
superfamilyAgoniatitaceaeHolzapfel 1899
familyAgoniatitidaeHolzapfel 1899
subfamilyAgoniatitinaeHolzapfel 1899
genusFidelites()
speciesoccultus(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.

Fidelites occultus Barrande 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height1112.75.5041.69.7012.4
shell diameter1124.511.575.916.622.3
shell inflation113.862.209.903.002.41

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: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Eifelian or 393.47000 to 387.95000 Ma

Collections (24 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95Czechia (Barrandia) Agoniatites occultus (12252)
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95Morocco Fidelites occultus (38760 38770 38776 38778 38797 38798)
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95Western Sahara Agoniatites occultus (209264)
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95Algeria Agoniatites occultus (40367 40457 40459 40461 40462)
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95Czechia Agoniatites occultus (172721 172730 172731 172732 172733 172734 172735) Goniatites occultus (172687)
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95Uzbekistan Fidelites occultus (186485 186486 186489)