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Flickia simplex

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Flickiidae

Taxonomy
Flickia simplex was named by Pervinquière (1907). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Between Zrissa and Bou el Haneche, which is in a Cenomanian marine horizon in Tunisia. It is the type species of Flickia.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Flickia simplex Pervinquière p. 214 figs. Pl 9, figs 2-5; text-figs 80, 82
1920Flickia boesei Adkins p. 85 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-3; text-fig 9
1929Flickia pervinquierei Collignon p. 4 figs. Pl 2, figs 15,15a; text-fig 14
1979Flickia simplex Wright and Kennedy p. 693 figs. Pl 88, figs 1-18, 20-24; pl 89, figs 11,12; text-figs 2a,d,e, 3j,k,l

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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)
familyFlickiidaeAdkins 1928
subfamilyFlickiinaeAdkins 1928
genusFlickia
speciessimplex

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.

Flickia simplex Pervinquière 1907
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Invalid names: Flickia boesei Adkins 1920 [synonym], Flickia pervinquierei Collignon 1929 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height24.534.105.004.550.636
shell diameter212.411.513.312.41.27
shell inflation23.733.104.503.800.990

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 Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 106.30000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5USA (Texas) Flickia boesei (178210)
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Tunisia Flickia simplex (type locality: 178209 178211 178212 178213 178214)
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Madagascar Flickia pervinquierei (178218 178219) Flickia simplex (178217) Flickia simplex, Flickia pervinquierei (178216)