Home Plot Diversity Curves Tree of Life About Admin Login

Welcome to the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology!

Please enter a genera name to retrieve more information.

Search By:
and Class
and Order

Paratibetites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ceratitida
    Superfamily:  
Clydonitaceae
    Family:  
Tibetitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Paratibetites MOJSISOVICS, 1896
    Type Species:  
Tibetites (Paratibetites) bertrandi


Images

(Click to enlarge in a new window)

Fossil Image
Fig. 196,3. P. adolphi Mojs., Nor., Himalaya, *.


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Himalaya-Timor


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Trias.(Carn.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Carnian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
237
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Trias.(Nor.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Norian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
205.74


Description

Like Tibetites in young, then ventral furrow appears bordered by distinct continuous keels, this followed by stage where ventral groove disappears and venter becomes obtusely rounded, ribbing and tuberculation decrease adorally. Suture ceratitic to ammonitic, more complex than in Tibetites




References

Mojsisovics, E. V., 1896, Beiträge zu Kenntnis der Obertriadischen Cephalopoden-fauna des Himalaya: Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturwiss. Kl., Denkschr., Band 63, p. 575-701, pl. 1-22.


Museum or Author Information