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Paramicroderoceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae

Taxonomy

Paramicroderoceras was named by Dommergues et al. (1994). Its type is Microderoceras birchiades.

It was assigned to Liparoceratidae by Blau (1998); to Eoderoceratidae by Donovan and Surlyk (2003), Meister and Friebe (2003) and Hillebrandt (2006); to Paramicroderoceratidae by Geczy and Meister (2007); and to Eoderoceratinae by Howarth (2013).

Species

P. fila, P. hungaricum, P. nothum

Species lacking formal opinion data

P. birchaides

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1994	Paramicroderoceras Dommergues et al.
1998	Paramicroderoceras Blau p. 230
2003	Paramicroderoceras Donovan and Surlyk
2003	Paramicroderoceras Meister and Friebe
2006	Paramicroderoceras Hillebrandt p. 51
2007	Paramicroderoceras Geczy and Meister
2013	Paramicroderoceras Howarth p. 40

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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	Eoderoceratoidea	(Spath 1929)
family	Eoderoceratidae	Spath 1929
subfamily	Eoderoceratinae	Spath 1929
genus	Paramicroderoceras	Dommergues et al. 1994

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. †Paramicroderoceras Dommergues et al. 1994

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†Paramicroderoceras fila Quenstedt 1884

†Paramicroderoceras hungaricum Geczy 1976

†Paramicroderoceras nothum Meneghini 1898

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	6	32.7	19.5	44.0	34.4	8.46
shell diameter	6	131.2	75.0	165.5	145.2	34.2
shell inflation	6	71.2	39.0	95.0	77.0	20.4

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: base of the Obtusum to the top of the Early/Lower Pliensbachian or 196.50000 to 183.00000 Ma

Collections (21 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian - Pliensbachian	199.3 - 182.7	Austria	P. sp., P. hungaricum (218903)
Late/Upper Sinemurian	196.5 - 189.6	Hungary	P. sp. (78791 78792)
Late/Upper Sinemurian	196.5 - 189.6	Austria	P. sp. (196517)
Obtusum - Raricostatum	196.5 - 189.6	Hungary	P. sp. (78796)
Obtusum - Raricostatum	196.5 - 189.6	Hungary (Veszprém Megye)	P. birchaides, P. hungaricum (78410) P. hungaricum (78285)
Oxynotum	196.5 - 189.6	Tunisia	Microderoceras nothum (170506)
Oxynotum - Raricostatum	196.5 - 189.6	Hungary (Veszprém Megye)	P. birchaides, P. sp. (78350) P. hungaricum (78352) P. sp. (78408)
Oxynotum - Raricostatum	196.5 - 189.6	Hungary	P. sp. (78793 78794 78795)
Raricostatum	196.5 - 189.6	Hungary	P. nothum (78785)
Raricostatum	196.5 - 189.6	Austria	P. sp. (189160)
Raricostatum - Early/Lower Pliensbachian	196.5 - 183.0	Hungary (Veszprém Megye)	P. hungaricum (78353)
Early/Lower Pliensbachian	189.6 - 183.0	Denmark (Bornholm)	P. sp., P. fila (219923)
Jamesoni	189.6 - 183.0	Hungary (Veszprém Megye)	P. sp. (81574)
Jamesoni	189.6 - 183.0	Chile	P. sp. A (181791) P. sp. B (181781)