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Lissoceras erato

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lissoceratidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites erato was named by d'Orbigny (1850). Its type specimen is MNHN.F.R02016 and is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Lissoceratoides erato by Schlegelmilch (1994), Parent (2006), Parent and Garrido (2015); it was recombined as Lissoceras erato by Pavia and Fernandez-Lopez (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Ammonites erato d'Orbigny
1994Lissoceratoides erato Schlegelmilch p. 45
2006Lissoceratoides erato Parent p. 18
2015Lissoceratoides erato Parent and Garrido p. 167 fig. 4A
2019Lissoceras erato Pavia and Fernandez-Lopez p. 34

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderHaploceratina
superfamilyHaploceratoidea(Zittel 1884)
familyLissoceratidaeDouville 1885
genusLissocerasBayle 1879
specieserato()

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.

†Lissoceras erato d'Orbigny 1850
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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 Callovian to the top of the Late/Upper Oxfordian or 165.30000 to 154.80000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Callovian165.3 - 161.5Argentina (Neuquen) Lissoceratoides erato (135718)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Argentina (Mendoza) Lissoceratoides erato (136706)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Argentina (Neuquen) Lissoceratoides erato (171548)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France Lissoceras erato (163585)
Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Madagascar Lissoceras erato (98192 98213)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Madagascar (Atsimo-Andrefana) Lissoceras erato (234238 234264)