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Allanoceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Nautiloidea
    Order:  
Orthocerida
    Superfamily:  
Pseudorthocerataceae
    Family:  
Pseudorthoceratidae
    Subfamily:  
Spyroceratinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Allanoceras BARSKOV, 1959, p. 57
    Type Species:  
A. inusitatum, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 174, 2. *A. inusitatum, 2a,b, long. sec., lat. view, × 1 (6).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

USSR (S.Ferghana = N.Tajikistan?)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Gorstian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
426.74
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.
    Ending International Stage:  
Pridoli
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
419


Description

Uncompressed smooth-surfaced orthocones, Siphuncle between center and venter, suborthochoanitic, with brims not developed, segments expanding only slightly within camerae, Annulosiphonate endosiphuncular deposits growing forward dorsally to form continuous lining of uniform thickness, ventrally, deposits inflated in adapical part of segment, but thinner in forward part of segment, Episeptal, hyposeptal, and mural deposits in camerae




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