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Daubichites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Goniatitida
    Superfamily:  
Neoicoceratoidea
    Family:  
Paragastrioceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Daubichites Y. POPOV, 1963, p. 149
    Type Species:  
D. orientalis, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 107, 2a-c. *D. orientalis, holotype, ?Wordian, Maritime Territory, TsGM 1/8236, plastoholotype, SUI 32740, a-b, X 1, c, diameter at 55 mm (new).


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Geographic Distribution

Russia (Maritime Territory, Verkhoian, Novaia Zemlia), China (Zhejiang, Nei Mongol, ?Xizang), Canada (Arctic, ?British Columbia), USA (Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, ?Arizona), Western Australia, Indonesia (Timor)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Guadalupian (Roadian, ?Wordian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Roadian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
274.37
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Guadalupian (Roadian, ?Wordian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Wordian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
264.34


Description

Similar to paragastrioceratin Tumaroceras in general conch form, but narrower (W/D, commonly 0.5) and with smaller umbilicus (Umin/D, 0.2-0.3). Ribs invariably present on umbilical shoulders of juveniles and may persist to maturity, growth lines and constrictions form shallow to deep hyponomic sinus. Prongs of ventral lobe and lateral lobe both approximately bilaterally symmetrical, subequal in size (width V1/L 0.7–1.0). Eleven species.




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