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Calycoceras (Calycoceras) boreale

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Calycoceras (Calycoceras) boreale was named by Kennedy et al. (1996). Its type specimen is AMNH 44332, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AMNH 3155, Belle Fourche Reservoir, Butte, which is in a Cenomanian marine shale/limestone in the Greenhorn Limestone Formation of South Dakota.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Calycoceras (Calycoceras) boreale Kennedy et al. p. 3 figs. 5-9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyAcanthoceratinaede Groussouvre 1894
genusCalycoceras
subgenusCalycocerasHyatt 1900
speciesboreale

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.

Calycoceras (Calycoceras) boreale Kennedy et al. 1996
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height316.49.4028.416.49.61
shell diameter337.421.064.338.621.8
shell inflation310.85.9018.711.46.42

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 2004, Kiessling 2003

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 (South Dakota) Calycoceras boreale (type locality: 77738 77739)