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Cymatoceras patens

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae

Taxonomy

Nautilus patens was named by Kner (1848). Its type specimen is NHMW 2004z0117/0001, a shell, and it is a mold. Its type locality is Nagoryany, area of Lvov, which is in a Senonian marine horizon in Ukraine.

It was recombined as Cymatoceras patens by Shimansky (1975) and Wilmsen and Esser (2004).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. carllottense, C. neckerianus, C. robustus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1848	Nautilus patens Kner p. 7 figs. pl. 1, figs 2,2a
1975	Cymatoceras patens Shimansky p. 111 fig. 23
2004	Cymatoceras patens Wilmsen and Esser p. 493 figs. Pl. 1, Fig. 3; Pl. 2, Figs 1a-c, 2a-b; Pl. 3, Figs 1a-b, 2a-b, 3-4, 5a-b, 6-7; Pl. 4, Figs 1a-c, 2-3

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Nautiloidea	Agassiz 1847
order	Nautilida	Agassiz 1847
superfamily	Nautiloidea	(de Blainville 1825)
family	Nautilidae	de Blainville 1825
genus	Cymatoceras	Hyatt 1884
species	patens	(Kner 1848)

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.

†Cymatoceras patens Kner 1848

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	11	47.6	25.0	82.5	54.6	19.3
shell diameter	11	83.8	46.1	140.0	90.7	34.5
shell inflation	11	11.2	6.00	21.5	11.0	5.38

Composition:

aragoniteo

Environment:

marinec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

nektonicf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2009-09-27 10:10:59

Modified:

2009-09-27 12:10:59

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (9 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Senonian	100.5 - 66.0	Ukraine	Nautilus patens (165813)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Germany	Cymatoceras patens (165535)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	70.6 - 66.0	Germany	Cymatoceras patens (165530 165531 165532 165533 165534 165536 165537)