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Arctohungarites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ceratitida
    Superfamily:  
Ceratitaceae
    Family:  
Hungaritidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Arctohungarites DIENER, 1916
    Type Species:  
*Hungarites triformis MOJSISOVICS, 1886


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Fig. 187,2. *A. triformis (Mojs.), 2a,b, x1 (294*)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

N.Sib.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Trias.(Anis.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Anisian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
246.7
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Trias.(Anis.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Anisian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
241.46


Description

Involute platycones with weak sigmoidal folds on body chamber, distinct keel only on adoral part of phragmocone, tending to again disappear. Suture ceratitic




References

Diener, Carl, 1916, Untersuchungen über die Wohnkammerlänge als Grundlage einer natürlichen Systematik der Ammoniten: Same, Sitzungsber., Abt. 1, Band 125, p. 253-309.


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