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Paraboliceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ammonitida
    Superfamily:  
Perisphinctaceae
    Family:  
Perisphinctidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Paraboliceras UHLIG, 1910
    Type Species:  
Am. jubar BLANFORD, 1865


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Fig. 459,7. *P. jubar (Blanford), Spiti sh., 7a,b, x0.5 (533*)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Himalaya-Indon.-N.Z.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Kimm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Kimmeridgian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
154.78
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Tithon.
    Ending International Stage:  
Tithonian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
143.1


Description

Like Berriasella, with narrow smooth band on venter, but ribbing made irregular by many sinuous parabolic ribs, and shoulders bearing numerous parabolic nodes




References

Uhlig, Victor, 1910, Die Fauna de Spiti-Schiefer des Himalaya, ihr geologisches Alter und ihre Weltstellung: Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-naturwiss. Kl., Band 85, p. 1-79 (531-609).


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