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Toxoceras stentor

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae

Taxonomy
Pseudocrioceras stentor was named by Anderson (1938). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 1661, a mile west of the Murphy house, Roaring River, which is in a Barremian marine horizon in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

It was recombined as Toxoceras stentor by Murphy (1975).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Pseudocrioceras stentor Anderson p. 206 figs. Plate 61, figures 1, 1A
1975Toxoceras stentor Murphy p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyCrioceratitidae(Wright 1952)
genusToxocerasLeveillé 1837
speciesstentor()

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.

†Toxoceras stentor Anderson 1938
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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 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: Late/Upper Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45USA (California) Pseudocrioceras stentor (216302 216304 216305 216306 225528)