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Grandidiericeras corrugatum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Taxonomy
Grandidiericeras corrugatum was named by Kennedy and Klinger (2011). Its type specimen is SAM-PCZ022402, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 105, False Bay, which is in a Santonian/Campanian marine siltstone in the St Lucia Formation of South Africa.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2011Grandidiericeras corrugatum Kennedy and Klinger p. 64 figs. 1A,B, 2A

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familyDesmoceratidaeZittel 1895
subfamilyPuzosiinaeSpath 1922
genusGrandidiericeras
speciescorrugatum

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.

Grandidiericeras corrugatum Kennedy and Klinger 2011
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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: base of the Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Early/Lower Campanian or 85.80000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian85.8 - 70.6South Africa Grandidiericeras corrugatum (type locality: 177194)