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Sarasinella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ammonitida
    Superfamily:  
Perisphinctaceae
    Family:  
Neocomitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Sarasinella UHLIG, 1905, p. 618
    Type Species:  
Hoplites ambiguus Uhlig, 1902, p. 45, SD LEMOINE, 1906, p. 180


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Fossil Image
Fig. 42, 2a, b. * S. ambigua (Uhlig), Austria, X0. 75 (Uhlig, 1902), Fig. 42, 2c, d. S. varians Uhlig, Spiti, X0.5 (Uhlig, 1910a)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

France, Austria, Ukraine (Crimea), Morocco, Madagascar, India (Spiti Valley), Pakistan (Salt Range), Alexander Land


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Valanginian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
137.7
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Valanginian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
132.6


Description

Moderately compressed to moderately inflated, inner whorls with some or all ribs bearing strong umbilical and midlateral tubercles at which ribs bifurcate and slight, sharp radial or oblique ventrolateral bullae, on outer whorls umbilical tubercles becoming dominant, with most ribs branching from them, midlateral tubercles dying out, although some second branching of ribs occurs, venter deeply grooved to flat.




References



Museum or Author Information

Uhlig, 1902, Uhlig, 1910