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Gravesia

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae

Taxonomy
Gravesia is a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Ammonites gigas. It is the type genus of Gravesiinae.

It was assigned to Aulacostephaninae by Mesezhnikov (1984); to Gravesiinae by Zeiss (1987); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Aulacostephanidae by Grigore and Marcu (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Gravesia Mesezhnikov p. 135
1987Gravesia Zeiss p. 229
2002Gravesia Sepkoski
2009Gravesia Grigore and Marcu p. 352

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyAulacostephanidaeSpath 1924
genusGravesia

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. †Gravesia
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†Gravesia gigas Zieten 1830
†Gravesia gravesiana d'Orbigny 1850
†Gravesia polypleura Hahn 1963
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height132.6
shell diameter196.0
shell inflation140.3

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 Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Late/Upper Tithonian or 155.70000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Switzerland (Jura) G. gigas (185668)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Romania G. gravesiana (198399)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Russian Federation (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) G. polypleura (58784)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany G. gigas (193330 193332 193334 193337) G. gigas, G. gravesiana (193335) G. gravesiana (13413 34608) G. sp. (193336)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Bayern) G. gigas (13412) G. gigas, G. gravesiana (13414)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0France (Midi-Pyrenees) G. gravesiana (94549)
Late/Upper Tithonian150.8 - 145.0France (Poitou-Charentes) G. portlandica (141258)