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Shumardites confessus

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Shumarditidae

Taxonomy
Shumardites confessus was named by Ruzhentsev (1939). Its type specimen is PIN 320/4743, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ural river, northwest of Ilinskoe, bed 18, which is in a Gzhelian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Shumardites confessus Ruzhentsev p. 851 fig. 1
1950Shumardites confessus Ruzhentsev p. 174 figs. Pl 14, figs 4-6; text-figs 72, 73

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyShumarditoidea(Plummer and Scott 1937)
familyShumarditidae
genusShumardites
speciesconfessusRuzhentsev 1939

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.

Shumardites confessus Ruzhentsev 1939
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height26.655.408.206.801.98
shell diameter215.312.319.015.74.74
shell inflation23.853.304.503.900.849

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:36:55
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:36:08
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Kazakhstan Shumardites confessus (172282)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Russian Federation Shumardites confessus (172256 172260 type locality: 172265)