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Amphipopanoceras medium

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Parapopanoceratidae

Taxonomy
Parapopanoceras medium was named by McLearn (1948). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 10712, Cameron Hill, which is in a Bithynian marine siliciclastic in the Toad Formation of Canada.

It was synonymized subjectively with Parapopanoceras tetsa by McLearn (1969); it was recombined as Amphipopanoceras medium by Tozer (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1948Parapopanoceras medium McLearn
1984Parapopanoceras medium Arkadiev and Vavilov figs. Pl 2, figs 1-3
1994Amphipopanoceras medium Tozer p. 88 figs. Pl 57, figs 6-8; text-fig 42b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
superfamilyMegaphyllitoidea(Mojsisovics 1896)
familyParapopanoceratidaeTozer 1971
genusAmphipopanocerasVovina 1947
speciesmedium(McLearn 1948)

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.

†Amphipopanoceras medium McLearn 1948
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height416.115.916.316.10.283
shell diameter437.330.843.038.56.28
shell inflation412.912.912.912.9-

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:33:06
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:36:47
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Aegean to the top of the Ladinian or 247.20000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aegean247.2 - 242.0Russian Federation Parapopanoceras medium (107034 111907)
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Russian Federation Parapopanoceras medium (124572)
Bithynian247.2 - 242.0Canada (British Columbia) Amphipopanoceras medium (137683 141649) Parapopanoceras medium (137072)
Pelsonian247.2 - 242.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Spitsbergen) Amphipopanoceras medium (211376)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Russian Federation Parapopanoceras medium (124546)