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

Phlycticeras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Ammonoidea
    Order:  
Ceratitida
    Suborder:  
Ammonitina
    Superfamily:  
Haplocerataceae
    Family:  
Oppeliidae
    Subfamily:  
Phlycticeratinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Phlycticeras HYATT, 1900 [pro Lophoceras Parona & Bonarelli, 1895 (non Hyatt, 1893)]
    Type Species:  
Nautilus pustulatus REINECKE, 1818


Images

(Click to enlarge in a new window)

Fossil Image
Fig. 334, 2. *P. pustulatum (Rein.), Ger., 2 a, b, X1 (688*)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-Alg.-Cutch.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Callov.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Callovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
165.29
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Callov.
    Ending International Stage:  
Callovian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
161.53


Description

Involute, feebly but coarsely ribbed, bituberculate, strongly strigate, with serrated keel and moderately complex sutures




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.


Museum or Author Information