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Kazakhoceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Ammonoidea
    Order:  
Goniatitida
    Suborder:  
Goniatitina
    Superfamily:  
Dimorphoceratoidea
    Family:  
Berkhoceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Kazakhoceras RUZHENTSEV, 1947a, p. 521
    Type Species:  
K. yanshini Ruzhentsev, 1947a, p. 522, OD, =?Neodimorphoceras hawkinsi Moore, 1930, p. 168, Ruzhentsev & BOGOSLOVSKAIA, 1971, p. 197, subj.


Images

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Fossil Image
Fig. 29, 4a-c. * K. yanshini, Nocedo, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain, Arnsbergian, a-b, GPIT 1494/1226, X 1 (Kullmann, new), c, suture, Perlora, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain, lower Serpukhovian, GPIT 1268/68, whorl height at 22 mm , whorl width at 15 mm X 1.5 (Kullmann, 1962).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Great Britain, Belgium, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Poland, Russia (Novaia Zemlia, South Urals), Kazakhstan (Karaganda), China (Guangxi, Gansu, Ningxia), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan


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

Conch form lenticular and almost oxycone, Growth lines crossed sometimes by fine spiral lirae




References



Museum or Author Information

GPIT, Kullmann, 1962