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Nathorstites macconnelli

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Nathorstitidae

Taxonomy
Popanoceras mcconnelli was named by Whiteaves (1889). Its type specimen is GSC 4716 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Liard River, 30 miles below Devil's Portage, which is in a Julian marine siliciclastic in the Liard Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Nathorstites.

It was recombined as Nathorstites mcconnelli by Smith (1927), Spath (1951), Bychkov et al. (1976) and Arkadiev and Vavilov (1984); it was recombined as Nathorstites macconnelli by Tozer (1994) and Dagys and Konstantinov (1997).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Popanoceras mcconnelli Whiteaves p. 138 figs. Pl 18, figs 2,2a,b, 3,3a
1899Popanoceras lenticulare Whiteaves
1927Nathorstites lenticularis Smith p. 67 figs. Pl 107, figs 6,7
1927Nathorstites mcconnelli Smith p. 67 figs. Pl 107, figs 3-5
1951Nathorstites mcconnelli Spath p. 141
1972Nathorstites strongulatus Korchinskaja
1976Nathorstites lenticularis Bychkov et al.
1976Nathorstites mcconnelli Bychkov et al.
1982Nathorstites vosnessenskyi Bychkov
1984Nathorstites lenticularis Arkadiev and Vavilov
1984Nathorstites mcconnelli Arkadiev and Vavilov figs. Pl 5, fig 5,7
1994Nathorstites macconnelli Tozer p. 141 figs. Pl 86, figs 1-7; pl 87, figs 1-8; text-figs 69a-c, 70a-b
1997Nathorstites macconnelli Dagys and Konstantinov

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
superfamilyNathorstitaceaeSpath 1951
familyNathorstitidae
genusNathorstitesBoehm 1903
speciesmacconnelli()

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.

Nathorstites macconnelli Whiteaves 1889
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Invalid names: Nathorstites lenticularis Whiteaves 1899 [synonym], Nathorstites strongulatus Korchinskaja 1972 [synonym], Nathorstites vosnessenskyi Bychkov 1982 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell diameter1533.69.1097.243.026.8

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 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Ladinian to the top of the Julian or 242.00000 to 232.00000 Ma

Collections (47 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen Nathorstites lenticularis (212209 212210 212211 212213 212215) Nathorstites mcconnelli (212181) Nathorstites mcconnelli, Nathorstites lenticularis (212183)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Canada (British Columbia) Nathorstites macconnelli (44153)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Russian Federation Nathorstites macconnelli (44863)
Longobardian242.0 - 235.0Russian Federation Nathorstites lenticularis (111927 214791) Nathorstites lenticularis, Nathorstites macconnelli (214782 214783 214790) Nathorstites macconnelli (44862 44864) Nathorstites mcconnelli (111926 111929)
Longobardian242.0 - 235.0Greenland Nathorstites macconnelli (204651)
Longobardian - Julian242.0 - 232.0Russian Federation Nathorstites macconnelli (214793)
Carnian237.0 - 228.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen Nathorstites lenticularis (44452)
Julian235.0 - 232.0Canada (Nunavut) Nathorstites macconnelli (43851)
Julian235.0 - 232.0Canada (British Columbia) Nathorstites macconnelli (43793 137254 137380 137381 137389 137391 137946 138610 138612 138625 138626 138627 138628 138629 138630 138632 138637 138638 139045 139112 139113 139114 139122 141635) Popanoceras mcconnelli (137390)