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Agathiceras mediterraneum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae

Taxonomy

Agathiceras mediterraneum was named by Toumanskaya (1949).

Synonyms

Agathiceras altunense was named by Wang (1983).

It was synonymized subjectively with Agathiceras mediterraneum by Zhou and Yang (2005).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1949	Agathiceras mediterraneum Toumanskaya p. 71
1983	Agathiceras altunense Wang p. 528 figs. Pl 179, figs 1,2; text-fig 50-1
1989	Agathiceras mediterraneum Leonova p. 110 figs. Pl 5, figs 1,2; text-fig 39
1990	Agathiceras mediterraneum Glenister et al. p. 479
1992	Agathiceras mediterraneum Leonova p. 143 figs. Pl 31, fig 2
2002	Agathiceras mediterraneum Leonova
2004	Agathiceras mediterraneum Zhou and Liengjarern p. 327 figs. 8.2-8.7,10.1,10.2
2005	Agathiceras mediterraneum Zhou and Yang p. 383 figs. 5.6-5.12,6.1,6.2,8.8-8.15
2017	Agathiceras mediterraneum Zhou p. 48 figs. 28.1-28.10, 29.4

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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	Goniatitida	Hyatt 1884
suborder	Goniatitina	Hyatt 1884
superfamily	Agathiceratoidea	Arthaber 1911
family	Agathiceratidae	Arthaber 1911
genus	Agathiceras
species	mediterraneum	Toumanskaya 1949

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.

†Agathiceras mediterraneum Toumanskaya 1949

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Invalid names: Agathiceras altunense Wang 1983 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	17	15.5	11.1	22.2	15.4	4.68
shell diameter	17	25.6	12.5	43.4	23.9	8.92
shell inflation	17	2.03	1.80	2.30	2.05	0.354

Composition:

aragoniteo

Environment:

marinec

Locomotion:

fast-movingo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2005-01-28 02:36:55

Modified:

2005-10-06 16:36:08

Source: o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Kungurian or 290.10000 to 272.30000 Ma

Collections (65 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Artinskian	290.1 - 279.3	Tajikistan	Agathiceras mediterraneum (130228 130231 130253)
Kungurian	279.3 - 272.3	Thailand	Agathiceras mediterraneum (61737)
Kungurian	279.3 - 272.3	China (Guizhou)	Agathiceras mediterraneum (185574)
Kungurian	279.3 - 272.3	China (Xinjiang)	Agathiceras mediterraneum (121705 121707)
Kungurian	279.3 - 272.3	Tajikistan	Agathiceras mediterraneum (81384 109839 111247 111259 111260 111262 111264 111267 111276 111278 111279 111283 111287 111288 111289 111372 111377 111378 111382 111386 111394 177979 177981 177982 177983 177984 177985 178023 178024 178025 178026 178027 178028 178030 178031 178033 178034 178035 178036 178037 178038 178039 178043 178044 178045 178047 178048 178130 178131 178132 178133 178134 178135 178136 178137 178138 178139 178140)