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Dinarites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ceratitida
    Superfamily:  
Ceratitaceae
    Family:  
Dinaritidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Dinarites MOJSISOVICS, 1882
    Type Species:  
Ceratites dalmatinus Hauer, 1865, SD Hyatt & SMITH, 1905


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Fig. 181,1. D. muchianus (Hauer), Yugo., x0.7 (232*)


Synonyms

Plococeras


Geographic Distribution

Alps-Balkan


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Scyth.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Olenekian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
249.88
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Scyth.
    Ending International Stage:  
Olenekian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
246.7


Description

More or less involute, with rounded or (rarely) flattened venters, conch smooth or with radial folds. Suture goniatitic.




References

Mojsisovics, E. V., 1882, Die Cephalopoden der mediterranen Triasprovinz: Same, Band 10, p. 1-322, pl. 1-94.


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