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Pulchellia (Carstenia)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae

Taxonomy
Carstenia was named as a genus. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Pulchellia (Carstenia) by Wright et al. (1996).

It was assigned to Pulchellia by Wright et al. (1996); and to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Pulchellia (Carstenia) Wright et al. p. 113
2002Carstenia Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPulchelliaceaeDouvillé 1890
familyPulchelliidaeHyatt 1903
genusPulchellia
subgenusCarstenia

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
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: Barremian or 129.40000 to 125.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Barremian129.4 - 125.0Spain (Murcia) Carstenia lindigii (2315 2323 2334)