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Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) alamoense

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Taxonomy
Beudanticeras alamoense was named by Anderson (1958). Its type specimen is CAS 61846.01, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 1346, Ono, which is in an Albian marine siliciclastic in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

It was recombined as Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) alamoense by Murphy and Rodda (1960).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
D. austeni, D. eozanum

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Beudanticeras alamoense Anderson p. 213 figs. Pl 5, figs 2,2a
1960Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) alamoense Murphy and Rodda p. 854

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familyDesmoceratidaeZittel 1895
subfamilyDesmoceratinaeZittel 1895
genusDesmocerasZittel 1884
subgenusPseudouhligella(Matsumoto 1938)
speciesalamoense()

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
partNmean
shell height149.0
shell diameter1103.0
shell inflation119.5

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: base of the Early/Lower Albian to the top of the Cenomanian or 112.03000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Albian113.0 - 100.5USA (Oregon) Desmoceras alamoense (229463)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Canada (British Columbia) Desmoceras alamoense (87475 87476 87481 87482 87486 87487 87492 87496 87678 87681 87687)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Canada (British Columbia) Desmoceras alamoense (87501)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6USA (California) Beudanticeras alamoense (type locality: 86818)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (California) Beudanticeras alamoense (44203)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (California) Desmoceras alamoense (1788)