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Epicanites
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Prolecanitida
Superfamily:
Prolecanitoidea
Family:
Daraelitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Epicanites SCHINDEWOLF, 1926b, p. 75
Type Species:
Paraprolecanites Sandbergeri SCHMIDT, 1925, p. 544, OD
Images
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Fig. 121,2. *E. sandbergeri (Schmidt), upper Visean, Algeria, diameter approximately 10 mm (Miller & Furnish, 1940b, adapted from Dollé, 1912).
Synonyms
Paraprolecanites; Librovitchites
Geographic Distribution
Ireland, England, France, Spain, Germany, Morocco, Algeria, Russia (Urals, Verkhoian), Kazakhstan (Southern Urals), Mongolia (Gobi Tian Shan), China (Xizang, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Guangxi), USA (Oklahoma)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Mississippian (upper Visean)
Beginning International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
66
Beginning Date:
335.91
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Mississippian (Serpukhovian)
Ending International Stage:
Serpukhovian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
323.4
Description
Incompletely known taxon, similar to Boesites but lateral lobe smaller than ventral and only slightly larger than two adjacent umbilical lobes (both external). Lobe serration absent or faint. Sutural formula: (V2 V1 V2 ) LUU1 U2 :I(D1 D1 ) [Russian]. Eight named species. [Primitive features, such as smooth to faintly serrate lobes and approximation to bilateral symmetry of umbilical saddles (latter, type species only) are at least partially a function of small size.]
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Prolecanitida
Superfamily:
Prolecanitoidea
Family:
Daraelitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Epicanites SCHINDEWOLF, 1926b, p. 75
Type Species:
Paraprolecanites Sandbergeri SCHMIDT, 1925, p. 544, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 121,2. *E. sandbergeri (Schmidt), upper Visean, Algeria, diameter approximately 10 mm (Miller & Furnish, 1940b, adapted from Dollé, 1912).
Synonyms
Paraprolecanites; Librovitchites
Geographic Distribution
Ireland, England, France, Spain, Germany, Morocco, Algeria, Russia (Urals, Verkhoian), Kazakhstan (Southern Urals), Mongolia (Gobi Tian Shan), China (Xizang, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Guangxi), USA (Oklahoma)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Mississippian (upper Visean)
Beginning International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
66
Beginning Date:
335.91
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Mississippian (Serpukhovian)
Ending International Stage:
Serpukhovian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
323.4
Description
Incompletely known taxon, similar to Boesites but lateral lobe smaller than ventral and only slightly larger than two adjacent umbilical lobes (both external). Lobe serration absent or faint. Sutural formula: (V2 V1 V2 ) LUU1 U2 :I(D1 D1 ) [Russian]. Eight named species. [Primitive features, such as smooth to faintly serrate lobes and approximation to bilateral symmetry of umbilical saddles (latter, type species only) are at least partially a function of small size.]