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Prolecanites
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Prolecanitida
Superfamily:
Prolecanitoidea
Family:
Prolecanitidae
Subfamily:
Prolecanitinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Prolecanites MOJSISOVICS, 1882, p. 199
Type Species:
Goniatites mixolobus G. Sandberger & F. Sandberger, 1850, p. 67, pars, non PHILLIPS, 1836, p. 236, SD Нуатт, 1884 in 1883-1884, p. 335, =Prolecanites mojsisovicsi Miller, 1938, p. 181, obj., =?Goniatites serpentinus PHILLIPS, 1836, p. 237, subj.
Images
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Fig. 117, 1a-c. P. discoides Foord & Crick, holotype, Carboniferous Limestone, Yorkshire, England, upper Visean, BMNH C.231, a-b, × 1, c, suture, diameter at 45 mm , enlarged (Foord & Crick, 1897).
Synonyms
Rhipaeocanites
Geographic Distribution
Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan (South Urals), China (Xinjiang, Xizang), USA (Illinois, Indiana, California), China (Xinjiang), ?lower Bashkirian
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Mississippian (upper Visean)
Beginning International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
66
Beginning Date:
335.91
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Mississippian (lower Serpukhovian), Pennsylvanian (?lower Bashkirian)
Ending International Stage:
Bashkirian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
50
Ending Date:
319.28
Description
Suture line with twelve lobes. Ventral lobe parallel sided or pouched, four lobes on flanks. Sutural formula: EALU2 U1 U3 I [German], VLUU1 U2 :ID [Russian]. Many species. [The ontogenetic development of the suture is insufficiently known, and the type species is insufficiently known.]
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Prolecanitida
Superfamily:
Prolecanitoidea
Family:
Prolecanitidae
Subfamily:
Prolecanitinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Prolecanites MOJSISOVICS, 1882, p. 199
Type Species:
Goniatites mixolobus G. Sandberger & F. Sandberger, 1850, p. 67, pars, non PHILLIPS, 1836, p. 236, SD Нуатт, 1884 in 1883-1884, p. 335, =Prolecanites mojsisovicsi Miller, 1938, p. 181, obj., =?Goniatites serpentinus PHILLIPS, 1836, p. 237, subj.
Images
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Fig. 117, 1a-c. P. discoides Foord & Crick, holotype, Carboniferous Limestone, Yorkshire, England, upper Visean, BMNH C.231, a-b, × 1, c, suture, diameter at 45 mm , enlarged (Foord & Crick, 1897).
Synonyms
Rhipaeocanites
Geographic Distribution
Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan (South Urals), China (Xinjiang, Xizang), USA (Illinois, Indiana, California), China (Xinjiang), ?lower Bashkirian
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Mississippian (upper Visean)
Beginning International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
66
Beginning Date:
335.91
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Mississippian (lower Serpukhovian), Pennsylvanian (?lower Bashkirian)
Ending International Stage:
Bashkirian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
50
Ending Date:
319.28
Description
Suture line with twelve lobes. Ventral lobe parallel sided or pouched, four lobes on flanks. Sutural formula: EALU2 U1 U3 I [German], VLUU1 U2 :ID [Russian]. Many species. [The ontogenetic development of the suture is insufficiently known, and the type species is insufficiently known.]