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Xenosphinctes berkai

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae

Taxonomy
Xenosphinctes berkai was named by Scherzinger and Schweigert (2017). Its type specimen is SMNS 70413, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Railway cutting NW of Talmühle, which is in a Tithonian carbonate limestone in the Hangende-Bankkalke Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Xenosphinctes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Xenosphinctes berkai Scherzinger and Schweigert p. 157 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyAtaxioceratidaeBuckman 1921
subfamilyLithacoceratinaeZeiss 1968
genusXenosphinctes
speciesberkai

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.

†Xenosphinctes berkai Scherzinger and Schweigert 2017
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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: Early/Lower Tithonian or 149.20000 to 145.06000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06Germany Xenosphinctes berkai (type locality: 193290)