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Fagesia
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Ammonitida
Suborder:
Ammonitina
Superfamily:
Acanthocerataceae
Family:
Vascoceratidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Fagesia PERVINQUIÈRE, 1907, p. 319
Type Species:
Olcostephanus superstes KOSSMAT, 1897, p. 26 (133), OD
Images
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Fig. 136, 1 a-c .* F. superstes (Kossmat), Lower Turonian, southern India, X0.5 (Kossmat, 1895-1898).-Fig. 136, 1d, e. F. catinus (Mantell), Lower Turonian, Montana, d, X0 .25, e, X0 .5 (Reeside, 1923).
Synonyms
Plesiovascoceras
Geographic Distribution
western Europe, northern Africa, Nigeria, Madagascar, Oman, southern India, Japan, California, Montana, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cretaceous (Lower Turonian)
Beginning International Stage:
Turonian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
93.9
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cretaceous (Lower Turonian)
Ending International Stage:
Turonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
25
Ending Date:
92.77
Description
Typically cadicones with strong, blunt umbilical tubercles, from which branch 2 or 3 strong, rounded ribs that may persist or be lost at early stage, inner whorls may retain distinct ventrolateral tubercles
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Ammonitida
Suborder:
Ammonitina
Superfamily:
Acanthocerataceae
Family:
Vascoceratidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Fagesia PERVINQUIÈRE, 1907, p. 319
Type Species:
Olcostephanus superstes KOSSMAT, 1897, p. 26 (133), OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 136, 1 a-c .* F. superstes (Kossmat), Lower Turonian, southern India, X0.5 (Kossmat, 1895-1898).-Fig. 136, 1d, e. F. catinus (Mantell), Lower Turonian, Montana, d, X0 .25, e, X0 .5 (Reeside, 1923).
Synonyms
Plesiovascoceras
Geographic Distribution
western Europe, northern Africa, Nigeria, Madagascar, Oman, southern India, Japan, California, Montana, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cretaceous (Lower Turonian)
Beginning International Stage:
Turonian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
93.9
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cretaceous (Lower Turonian)
Ending International Stage:
Turonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
25
Ending Date:
92.77
Description
Typically cadicones with strong, blunt umbilical tubercles, from which branch 2 or 3 strong, rounded ribs that may persist or be lost at early stage, inner whorls may retain distinct ventrolateral tubercles