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Cryptometoicoceras mite

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Cryptometoicoceras mite was named by Kennedy and Cobban (1990). Its type specimen is USNM 423766, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic D4462, Black Hills, which is in a Cenomanian marine siliciclastic in the Greenhorn Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Cryptometoicoceras.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Cryptometoicoceras mite Kennedy and Cobban p. 412 figs. Pl 7, figs 21-27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyMammitinae()
genusCryptometoicoceras
speciesmite

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.

Cryptometoicoceras mite Kennedy and Cobban 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (Montana) Cryptometoicoceras mite (175421)
Late/Upper Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (Wyoming) Cryptometoicoceras mite (type locality: 167810)