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Eogunnarites matsumotoi

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae

Taxonomy
Eogunnarites matsumotoi was named by Murphy and Rodda (1960). Its type specimen is UCLA 28664 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCLA loc. 3775, North Fork Cottonwood Creek, which is in a Cenomanian marine conglomerate in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Eogunnarites matsumotoi Murphy and Rodda p. 855 figs. Pl. 104, figs. 1,2,3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familyKossmaticeratidaeSpath 1922
subfamilyMarshallitinaeMatsumoto 1955
genusEogunnarites
speciesmatsumotoi

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.

Eogunnarites matsumotoi Murphy and Rodda 1960
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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: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 106.30000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5USA (California) Eogunnarites matsumotoi (1784)
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (California) Eogunnarites matsumotoi (type locality: 1786)