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Timorites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Goniatitida
    Superfamily:  
Cycloloboidea
    Family:  
Cyclolobidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Timorites HANIEL, 1915, p. 108
    Type Species:  
T. curvicostatus Haniel, 1915, p. 109, SD DIENER, 1921, p. 25


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Fig. 97a-b. *T. curvicostatus, Amarassi beds, Wuchiapingian, Soefa, Timor, lectotype (herein), PIUB 29b of Haniel (1915, pl. 52, 9a-c), X 2 (new), Fig. 97 c-i. T. schucherti Miller & Furnish, La Difunta beds, Capitanian, Coahuila, Mexico, c-f, X 2, g-h, X 1.2 (Miller, 1944), i, diameter at approximately 70 mm (Miller & Furnish, 1940a)


Synonyms

Hanieloceras; Wanneroceras; Subeothinites; Coahuiloceras


Geographic Distribution

Indonesia (Timor), USA (western Texas), Mexico (Coahuila), Russia (Maritime Territory, Amur), Azerbaijan, Iran (north, central), Tajikistan (?Pamir), China (Yunnan, Xizang), Japan (Kitakami)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Guadalupian (Capitanian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Capitanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
264.34
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lopingian (Wuchiapingian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Wuchiapingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
254.24


Description

Similar to Cyclolobus, but conch broader and commonly retaining ribs to maturity. External suture with 8 to 11 pairs of lobes to umbilical shoulders, and lacking a tertiary subdivision near crest of first lateral saddle. Seventeen named species.




References



Museum or Author Information

T, Miller, 1944, Miller & Furnish, 1940