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Virgatosphinctes
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Ammonitida
Superfamily:
Perisphinctaceae
Family:
Perisphinctidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Virgatosphinctes UHLIC, 1910
Type Species:
V. broilii, SD R. DOUVILLÉ, 1912
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Fig. 429,1. *V. broilii (Uhlig), M. Spiti sh., 1 a, b, X0.5 (533*).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-N.Afr.-Somali.?Abys. - Tangan. - Madag. - Cauc. - Persia - Cutch-Baluch.-Himalaya-NW. Austral.-Mex.-Cuba-Trini-dad-Arg.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Tithon.
Beginning International Stage:
Tithonian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
149.24
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Tithon.
Ending International Stage:
Tithonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
143.1
Description
Large, moderately evolute, whorls rounded to slightly compressed, ribs biplicate, gradually becoming triplicate, virgatotome, then fasciculate, and gradually enlarging and becoming more distant, at all stages ribbing is smoother than in Pseudovirgatites or Subplanites, more like that of Wheatleyites, aperture sinuous, simple.
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Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Ammonitida
Superfamily:
Perisphinctaceae
Family:
Perisphinctidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Virgatosphinctes UHLIC, 1910
Type Species:
V. broilii, SD R. DOUVILLÉ, 1912
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 429,1. *V. broilii (Uhlig), M. Spiti sh., 1 a, b, X0.5 (533*).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-N.Afr.-Somali.?Abys. - Tangan. - Madag. - Cauc. - Persia - Cutch-Baluch.-Himalaya-NW. Austral.-Mex.-Cuba-Trini-dad-Arg.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Tithon.
Beginning International Stage:
Tithonian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
149.24
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Tithon.
Ending International Stage:
Tithonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
143.1
Description
Large, moderately evolute, whorls rounded to slightly compressed, ribs biplicate, gradually becoming triplicate, virgatotome, then fasciculate, and gradually enlarging and becoming more distant, at all stages ribbing is smoother than in Pseudovirgatites or Subplanites, more like that of Wheatleyites, aperture sinuous, simple.