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Amoenophyllites amoenus

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Mimagoniatitidae

Taxonomy
Goniatites amoenus 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 is the type species of Amoenophyllites.

It was recombined as Amoenophyllites amoenus by Chlupac and Turek (1983) and Korn and Klug (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Goniatites amoenus Barrande
1983Amoenophyllites amoenus Chlupac and Turek p. 56 figs. Pl 11, figs 1-13; text-fig 11
2002Amoenophyllites amoenus Korn and Klug p. 75

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderAgoniatitinaRuzhencev 1957
superfamilyMimagoniatitaceaeMiller 1938
familyMimagoniatitidaeMiller 1938
genusAmoenophyllites
speciesamoenus(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.

†Amoenophyllites amoenus Barrande 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height434.328.043.034.06.24
shell diameter463.552.077.064.011.0
shell inflation411.910.513.512.01.47

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: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Emsian to the top of the Early/Lower Devonian or 402.50000 to 393.30000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Devonian419.2 - 393.3Czech Republic (Barrandia) Amoenophyllites amoenus (12183)
Early/Lower Devonian - Eifelian419.2 - 387.7Czech Republic Amoenophyllites amoenus (12148)
Late/Upper Emsian402.5 - 391.9Czech Republic Amoenophyllites amoenus (172653 172654 172656 172657 172739 172740 172741) Goniatites amoenus (172686)