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Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) umsinenense

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae

Taxonomy
Lophoceras umsinenense was named by van Hoepen (1931). Its type specimen is SAM-PCZ19190, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Umsinene river, north of Hluhluwe, which is in an Albian marine siltstone in the Mzinene Formation of South Africa.

It was recombined as Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) umsinenense by Kennedy and Klinger (2011).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. multifidum, O. pandalense, O. robustum, O. roissyi, Venezoliceras chihuahuaense

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Lophoceras umsinenense van Hoepen p. 41 fig. 1,2
2011Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) umsinenense Kennedy and Klinger p. 74 figs. 13-19

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyMojsisovicsiidaeHyatt 1903
subfamilyMojsisovicziinaeHyatt 1903
genusOxytropidocerasStieler 1920
subgenusVenezoliceras(Spath 1925)
speciesumsinenense(van Hoepen 1931)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height372.061.098.062.520.9
shell diameter3169.4140.0237.0146.554.2
shell inflation349.237.276.042.021.2

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 Middle Albian to the top of the Late/Upper Albian or 109.00000 to 99.60000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Albian109.0 - 105.3South Africa Oxytropidoceras umsinenense (177368)
Middle Albian - Late/Upper Albian109.0 - 99.6South Africa Oxytropidoceras umsinenense (177364 177370)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6South Africa Lophoceras umsinenense (177372) Oxytropidoceras umsinenense (66017) Tarfayites sp. (66014)