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Anarcestes simulans

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Anarcestidae

Taxonomy
Goniatites simulans was named by Barrande (1865). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Praha-Hlubocepy (upper Trebotov limestone, Dalejan), which is in an Emsian carbonate limestone in the Trebotov Formation of the Czech Republic.

It was recombined as Anarcestes simulans by Chlupac and Turek (1983), Korn and Klug (2002) and Klug (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Goniatites simulans Barrande
1983Anarcestes simulans Chlupac and Turek p. 96 figs. Pl 23, figs 1-12; text-fig 23
2002Anarcestes simulans Klug fig. 34P
2002Anarcestes simulans Korn and Klug p. 129

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderAnarcestinaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyAnarcestaceaeSteinmann 1890
familyAnarcestidaeSteinmann 1890
genusAnarcestesMojsisovics 1882
speciessimulans(Barrande 1865)

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.

†Anarcestes simulans Barrande 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height64.692.1013.05.354.05
shell diameter614.06.6035.014.811.2
shell inflation65.542.8011.05.903.55

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-10-06 14:38:07
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:38:07
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: Late/Upper Emsian or 402.50000 to 391.90000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Devonian419.2 - 393.3Czech Republic (Barrandia) Anarcestes simulans (12183)
Early/Lower Devonian - Eifelian419.2 - 387.7Czech Republic Anarcestes simulans (12148 12149)
Late/Upper Emsian402.5 - 391.9Czech Republic Anarcestes simulans (173002) Goniatites simulans (172686)
Late/Upper Emsian402.5 - 391.9Morocco Anarcestes simulans (38783 38796)
Late/Upper Emsian - Eifelian402.5 - 387.7Czech Republic Anarcestes simulans (172682 172683)
Eifelian393.3 - 387.7Morocco Anarcestes simulans (38755)