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Cancelloceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Goniatitida
    Superfamily:  
Gastrioceratoidea
    Family:  
Gastrioceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Cancelloceras Ruzhentsev & BOGOSLOVSKAIA, 1969b, p. 1333
    Type Species:  
Gastrioceras cancellatum BISAT, 1923, p. 47, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 60, 4a-b. C. (C.) crencellatum Bisat, = C. (Cr.) soliari Nikolaeva & Kullmann, paratype, Choça, near São Marcos da Serra, southwestern Portugal, Quebradas Formation, Yeadonian, IGML 24/1, a, side view, X 2, b, suture, X 3.1 (Nikolaeva & Kullmann, 1995).", "Fig. 60, 3a-c. *C. (M.) karpinskii (YaniSHEVSKII), Shartym river, Cheliabinsk oblast', Marsdenian, a-b, PIN 455/48002, X 2, c, suture, PIN 455/48000, whorl height at 6.3 mm , whorl width 12.3 mm, X 4.2 (Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia, 1978)."


Synonyms

Leiogastrioceras


Geographic Distribution

Belgium, England, Wales, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia (South Urals), Ukraine (Donets), Algeria, Morocco, Kazakhstan (Tian Shan), Kyrgyzstan (Tian Shan), Uzbekistan (Fergana, Tian Shan), China (Ningxia, Guizhou), USA (Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nevada)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Pennsylvanian (lower Bashkirian [Marsdenian])
    Beginning International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
17.2
    Beginning Date:  
321.98
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Pennsylvanian (lower Bashkirian Yeadonian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
56.3
    Ending Date:  
318.76


Description

Conch moderately involute. Well-developed tubercles on umbilical shoulder similar to Gastrioceras, but with reticulate ornamentation at maturity. Suture resembles Gastrioceras. Many species. Three subgenera: Cancelloceras (Cancelloceras) ruzhentsev & BogoslovsKaia, 1969b; Cancelloceras (Monitoceras) ruzhentsev & BogoslovsKaia, 1978; and Cancelloceras (Crencelloceras) niKolaeva & Kullmann, 1995. [Leiogastrioceras was established for species with relatively high median saddle and narrow adventitious lobe. For discussion, see niKolaeva & Kullmann, 1995.]




References



Museum or Author Information

Nikolaeva & Kullmann, 1995, Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia, 1978