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Marathonites jpsmithi

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Marathonitidae

Taxonomy
Stacheoceras (Marathonites) jpsmithi was named by Böse (1919). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wolf Camp, Glass Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Gaptank Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Marathonites.

It was synonymized subjectively with Marathonites ganti by Plummer and Scott (1937); it was recombined as Marathonites jamesperrinsmithi by Bogoslovskaya (1990); it was recombined as Marathonites jpsmithi by Ehiro et al. (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Stacheoceras (Marathonites) jpsmithi Böse p. 135 figs. Pl 6, figs 77-89
1990Marathonites jamesperrinsmithi Bogoslovskaya p. 71
2014Marathonites jpsmithi Ehiro et al. p. 58 figs. 5.1-5.4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyMarathonitoidea(Ruzhencev 1938)
familyMarathonitidaeRuzhencev 1938
genusMarathonites()
speciesjpsmithi()

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.

Marathonites jpsmithi Böse 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height38.236.0011.97.803.02
shell diameter318.012.224.020.06.00
shell inflation32.00--2.00-

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: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9USA (Texas) Stacheoceras jpsmithi (type locality: 128585)