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Fagesia peroni

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae

Taxonomy

Fagesia peroni was named by Pervinquiére (1907) [DISTRIBUTION: Turonian; Europe; central Asia.]. It is not a trace fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

F. thevestensis

Synonyms

Fagesia levis was named by Renz (1982). Its type specimen is Re6799-109, a shell, and it is a mold. Its type locality is Assemblage 1, La Morita [Chejendé Mbr, La Luna Fm], which is in a Turonian marine siliciclastic in the La Luna Formation of Venezuela.

It was synonymized subjectively with Fagesia catinus by Kennedy et al. (1987); it was recombined as Fagesia superstes levis by Meister (1989); it was synonymized subjectively with Fagesia peroni by Kennedy et al. (2008).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1907	Fagesia peroni Pervinquiére p. 329 figs. pl. 20, figs. 7-8
1982	Fagesia levis Renz p. 78 figs. pl. 22, figs. 20a-b
1987	Fagesia levis Zaborski p. 41 figs. 23, 24, 27, 28
1989	Fagesia superstes levis Meister p. 37 figs. Pl 16, fig 2; text-fig 25
1994	Fagesia peroni Chancellor et al. p. 64
1994	Fagesia peroni Kennedy p. 261
2008	Fagesia peroni Kennedy et al. p. 157 figs. Pl 3, figs 1,2; pl 4, figs 1-3; pl 5, figs 1,2; pl 7, figs 4-6; pl 9, figs 7-9; text-figs 5-6
2012	Fagesia peroni Ayoub-Hannaa and Fürsich p. 73 fig. 13
2022	Fagesia peroni Guendouz et al. p. 2169 fig. 6c

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Ammonoidea	()
order	Ammonitida
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Acanthoceratoidea	(de Grossouvre 1894)
family	Vascoceratidae	Douvillé 1912
subfamily	Vascoceratinae	Douvillé 1912
genus	Fagesia	Pervinquiére 1907
species	peroni	Pervinquiére 1907

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.

†Fagesia peroni Pervinquiére 1907

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Invalid names: Fagesia levis Renz 1982 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	7	38.8	18.8	52.1	40.0	11.5
shell diameter	7	88.7	42.7	124.7	98.0	26.5
shell inflation	7	21.9	11.8	34.0	23.6	6.75

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: Early/Lower Turonian or 93.50000 to 89.30000 Ma

Collections (12 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Venezuela	Fagesia levis (88078)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Tunisia	Fagesia peroni (88843)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Romania	Fagesia peroni (73516)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Morocco	Fagesia peroni (175005)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Algeria	Fagesia peroni (227894 227895 227912 227914)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Egypt	Fagesia peroni (140586)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Nigeria	Fagesia levis (69503 175531 175543)