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Cymaclymenia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Clymeniida
    Superfamily:  
Clymeniaceae
    Family:  
Cyrtoclymeniidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Cymaclymenia HYATT, 1884 [non Cymaclymeniae GUMBEL, 1863]
    Type Species:  
Planulites striatus MUNSTER, 1832


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Fossil Image
Fig. 43,4. C. camerata SCHINOEWOLF, Cly- menia z., Ger.; X U (I 13). --Fig. 43,5. ·C. striata (MUNSTER), Clymenia z., Get.; suture at maturity, enlarged (114)


Synonyms

Postclymenia, Striatoclymenia


Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N.Afr.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Dev.( Platyclymenia z.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Famennian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
35
    Beginning Date:  
366.97
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Dev.(Wocklumeria z.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Famennian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
359.3


Description

Like Genuclymenia but with pointed, asymmetrical lat- eral lobe and deep, pointed umbilical lobe, divided by umbilical seam. Smooth or ribbed.




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