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

Phymatoceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ammonitida
    Superfamily:  
Eoderocerataceae
    Family:  
Hammatoceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Phymatoceras HYATT, 1867
    Type Species:  
P. robustum HYATT, (young of Am. tirolensis DUMORTIER, 1874, non HAUER)


Images

(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 302,1a-c. ·P. robustum HYATT, Fr.; X0.3 (614). - Fig. 302,ld,e. P. binodala (BucK.) (type of CharIronia); X0.7 (595')


Synonyms

Lillia, Loryella, Denckmannia


Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N.Afr.- Anatolia· Japan. -S.Alaska-Chi


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Toarc.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Toarcian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
50
    Beginning Date:  
179.45
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Toarc.
    Ending International Stage:  
Toarcian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
174.7


Description

Evolute planulates with flat to carinate-bisulcate venter and more or less sigmoid ribs, many twinned or triploid from tubercles on umbilical edge.




References



Museum or Author Information