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Popanoceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Ammonoidea
    Order:  
Goniatitida
    Suborder:  
Goniatitina
    Superfamily:  
Popanoceratoidea
    Family:  
Popanoceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Popanoceras HYATT, 1884 in 1883-1884, p. 337
    Type Species:  
Goniatites sobolewskyanus de Verneuil, 1845, p. 372, SD GEMMELLARO, 1887, p. 19, as Popanoceras Sobolewskianum (sic)


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Fossil Image
Fig. 114, 1a-e. *P. sobolewskyanum (de Verneuil), upper Artinskian, Baigendzhinian, Southern Urals, a-c, X 0.67, d, diameter approximately 25 mm (Ruzhentsev, 1956b), e, diameter at 35 mm (Miller & Furnish, 1940a).


Synonyms

Pamiropopanoceras


Geographic Distribution

Kazakhstan (Southern Urals), Russia (Southern Urals), China (Xizang, Jilin, Guizhou), Japan (Fukushima), Madagascar, Tajikistan (Pamir), Ukraine (Crimea), Indonesia (Timor), Western Australia (Carnarvon Basin), USA (Texas)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Cisuralian (lower Artinskian Aktastinian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Artinskian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
290.51
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Guadalupian (Wordian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Roadian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
269.21


Description

Prongs of ventral lobe (V1) equal to or wider than adjacent lateral lobe, bidentate to quadridentate, four or five external lateral lobes moderately dentate




References



Museum or Author Information

Ruzhentsev, 1956, Miller & Furnish, 1940