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Dorsoplanites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae

Taxonomy

Dorsoplanites is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Dorsoplanitinae by Mesezhnikov (1984); and to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002).

Species

D. byrrangensis, D. flavus, D. serus, D. subovalis, D. triplex

Species lacking formal opinion data

D. antiquus, D. antsalovensis, D. crassus, D. dainae, D. gracilis, D. maximus, D. panderi, D. panderiformis, D. sibiriakovi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1984	Dorsoplanites Mesezhnikov p. 139
2002	Dorsoplanites Sepkoski

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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	Perisphinctoidea	(Steinman 1890)
family	Perisphinctidae	Steinmann 1890
subfamily	Dorsoplanitinae	Arkell 1950
genus	Dorsoplanites

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.

G. †Dorsoplanites

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†Dorsoplanites byrrangensis Mesezhnikov 1984

†Dorsoplanites flavus Spath 1936

†Dorsoplanites serus Gerasimov 1978

†Dorsoplanites subovalis Mesezhnikov 1984

†Dorsoplanites triplex Spath 1936

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	5	29.9	18.9	60.5	23.8	17.4
shell diameter	5	87.9	51.0	178.0	68.0	53.6
shell inflation	5	41.5	25.8	78.3	40.7	25.0

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: base of the Early/Lower Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 155.70000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (32 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian	157.3 - 152.1	Madagascar (Melaky)	D. antsalovensis (234269)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian - Late/Upper Kimmeridgian	155.7 - 150.8	Madagascar	D. antsalovensis (234322)
Tithonian	152.1 - 145.0	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	D. panderi (212801) D. panderi, D. gracilis, D. maximus (212946 212977)
Tithonian	152.1 - 145.0	Russian Federation	D. dorsoplanus, D. panderi (58859) D. panderi (190569)
Early/Lower Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Russian Federation	D. panderi (190573) D. serus (190574)
Middle Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk)	D. transitorius, D. triplex (164330)
Middle Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Russian Federation	D. panderi (190666) D. sp. (190667 190668)
Middle Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Russian Federation (Komi Republits)	D. triplex, D. flavus (164328)
Middle Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Russian Federation (Khabarovsk)	D. antiquus, D. dainae, D. subovalis, D. byrrangensis (164326) D. byrrangensis (164332) D. flavus (164338) D. maximus (164323 164339 164347) D. maximus, D. panderiformis, D. subpanderi (164337) D. maximus, D. panderiformis, D. triplex (164341) D. maximus, D. sibiriakovi, D. crassus (164336) D. sp. (164333 164346 164349 164350) D. sp., D. byrrangensis (164335) D. sp., D. subovalis, D. byrrangensis (164334) D. triplex, D. flavus (164340)
Middle Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Greenland	D. gracilis (66541 66542)