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Sagenites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ceratitida
    Superfamily:  
Tropitaceae
    Family:  
Haloritidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Sagenites DIENER, 1915
    Type Species:  
S. tropitiformis


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Fig. 200,1. *S. tropitiformis, Alps, 1 a, b, X1, 1 c, X2 (292*)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Alps, Hung, Sicily, Timor


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Carn.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Carnian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
237
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Nor.
    Ending International Stage:  
Norian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
205.74


Description

Smooth, small, evolute, compressed, discoidal, venter acute with prominent keel, body chamber contracting. Suture goniatitic




References

Diener, Carl, 1915, Fossilium Catalogus, pt. 8, Cephalopoda Triadica: W. Junk (Berlin), 369 p.


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