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Watinoceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Watinoceras Warren
1978Watinoceras Cooper p. 120
1987Watinoceras Zaborski p. 37
1996Watinoceras Wright et al. p. 162
2002Watinoceras Sepkoski
2002Watinoceras Stelck et al. p. 1790
2005Watinoceras Gale et al. p. 172
2007Watinoceras Ifrim and Stinnesbeck p. 646

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyAcanthoceratinaede Groussouvre 1894
genusWatinocerasWarren 1930

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. †Watinoceras Warren 1930
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Subg. †Watinoceras (Watinoceras) Warren 1930
†Watinoceras amudariense Arkhanguelsky 1916
†Watinoceras coloradoense Henderson 1908
†Watinoceras devonense Wright and Kennedy 1981
†Watinoceras jaekeli Solger 1904
†Watinoceras odonnelli Cobban et al. 1989
†Watinoceras reesidei Warren 1930
†Watinoceras thompsonense Cobban 1988
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
C. W. Wright et al. 1996Small to medium-sized; early whorls compressed, with inner and outer ventrolateral tubercles on fine ribs and flat or weakly rounded venter; in later whorls venter may become concave between rows of ventrolateral clavi or rounded with ribs crossing in chevrons; ornament may coarsen with age.
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height312.65.6021.017.07.99
shell diameter329.513.048.041.018.5
shell inflation39.283.8015.014.06.20

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 Albian to the top of the Turonian or 113.00000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections (52 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Albian113.0 - 100.5Mexico (Coahuila de Zaragoza) W. sp. (88677)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (New Mexico) W. odonnelli (230898)
Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian99.6 - 89.3USA (New Mexico) W. sp. (179266)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (Colorado) W. sp. (3074)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Canada (British Columbia) W. sp. (87591)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Cameroon Acanthoceras jaekeli (209687)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Germany (Sachsen) W. coloradoense (172054)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Canada (Alberta) W. reesidei (89194)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Angola W. coloradoense (175546)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Brazil (Sergipe) W. coloradoense (175461)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Canada (British Columbia) W. sp., W. reesidei (87590)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Canada (Northwest Territories) W. coloradoensis, W. reesidei (87436)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (Alaska) W. reesidei (226969)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Colombia W. reesidei, W. coloradoense (46997 46998)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (Arizona) W. coloradoense (53935 53937 54194) W. coloradoense, W. devonense (54188) W. hattini (54197) W. hattini, W. spp. (54196) W. praecursor (55819) W. sp. (3218 3244 3283 3284 3285) W. spp. (55885)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Venezuela (Trujillo) W. coloradoense (88036) W. venezolanum, W. reesidei (88076)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (Minnesota) W. coloradoense (88029)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (Colorado) W. coloradoense (87872) W. flexuosum, W. reesidei, W. devonense (230903) W. praecursor, W. depressum, W. devonense (230901) W. sp. (230902)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Mexico (Nuevo Leon) W. coloradoense (87879 87881 87882)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Nigeria W. sp., W. amudariense (69507)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (New Mexico) W. sp. (200337)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Cameroon W. reesidei, W. amudariense (82784)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Tunisia W. sp. (88854)
Early/Lower Turonian - Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3Brazil W. guentherti, W. sp., W. coloradoense, W. amudariense, W. jaekeli (140889)
Late/Upper Turonian93.5 - 89.3Canada (Alberta) W. sp. (89193)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3Brazil W. sp. (144394)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (Arizona) W. sp. (55986)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3Brazil (Sergipe) W. sp. A (143144 143145 143146 143152) W. sp. A, W. sp. B (143141)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3Canada (British Columbia) Acanthoceras coloradoensis (87444)