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Siemiradzkia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Ammonoidea
    Order:  
Ceratitida
    Suborder:  
Ammonitina
    Superfamily:  
Perisphinctaceae
    Family:  
Perisphinctidae
    Subfamily:  
Pseudoperisphinctinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Siemiradzkia HYATT, 1900
    Type Species:  
Am. aurigerus OPPEL, 1857 (ICZN Opinion 301)


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Fossil Image
Fig. 405, 13. *S. aurigera (Oppel), Fr., x0.7 (330*)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N. Afr.-Madag.-Persia-Pamirs-Mex.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Jur. (Bath.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Bathonian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
168.17
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Jur. (Bath.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Bathonian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
165.29


Description

Small, with fine, sharp, irregular ribbing which becomes modified on venter of body chamber, aperture with large lappets. Parabolae, no constrictions.




References

Hyatt, Alpheus, 1900, Cephalopoda: in Zittel, K. A., Textbook of Palaeontology, 1st English ed., transl. Eastman, C. R., p. 502-592, fig. 1049-1235.


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