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Keyserlingites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ceratitida
    Superfamily:  
Noritaceae
    Family:  
Sibiritidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Keyserlingites HYATT, 1900
    Type Species:  
Ceratites subrobustus MOJSISOVICS, 1886


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Fig. 178,7. *K. subrobustus (Mojs.), Sib., 7a,b, x0.7 (294*)


Synonyms

Robustites


Geographic Distribution

Spitz.-Sib.-Ida.


Age Range

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


Description

Inflated, with subtabulate to arched venter, with umbilical nodes, with lateral ribs that may cross venter or a row of nodes along ventral shoulder




References

Hyatt, Alpheus, 1900, Cephalopoda: in Zittel, K. A., Textbook of Palaeontology, 1st English ed., transl. Eastman, C. R., p. 502-592, fig. 1049-1235.


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