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Proptychites
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Ceratitida
Superfamily:
Noritaceae
Family:
Proptychitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Proptychites WAAGEN, 1892
Type Species:
Ceratites laurencianus DEKONINCK, 1863
Images
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Fig. 171,3. *P. laurencianus (Kon.), SaltR. 3 a, b, X0.3 (548*)"
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia-N.Am.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Scyth.(U.Gyronitan)
Beginning International Stage:
Induan
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
46.2
Beginning Date:
250.97
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Scyth.(Flemingitan)
Ending International Stage:
Olenekian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
48.9
Ending Date:
248.32
Description
More or less involute, discoidal, with tendency to inflation, venter arched. Suture more advanced than in ancestral Ophiceratidae.
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Ceratitida
Superfamily:
Noritaceae
Family:
Proptychitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Proptychites WAAGEN, 1892
Type Species:
Ceratites laurencianus DEKONINCK, 1863
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 171,3. *P. laurencianus (Kon.), SaltR. 3 a, b, X0.3 (548*)"
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia-N.Am.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Scyth.(U.Gyronitan)
Beginning International Stage:
Induan
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
46.2
Beginning Date:
250.97
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Scyth.(Flemingitan)
Ending International Stage:
Olenekian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
48.9
Ending Date:
248.32
Description
More or less involute, discoidal, with tendency to inflation, venter arched. Suture more advanced than in ancestral Ophiceratidae.