Perisphinctes
Perisphinctes Temporal range:
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Exhibit from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin .
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Perisphinctidae |
Subfamily: | †Perisphinctinae |
Genus: | †Perisphinctes Waagen, 1869[2] |
Type species | |
Ammonites variocostatus[4] Buckland, 1836
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Species[3] | |
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Perisphinctes is an extinct
index fossil for that time period.[5] The species P. boweni was named after the English chemist and geologist E. J. Bowen (1898–1980).[6]
Distribution
Cephalopods of species belonging to this genus have been found in the Jurassic of Antarctica, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Yemen.[3]
Gallery
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Perisphinctes virguloides
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Perisphinctes choffati
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Perisphinctes plicatilis
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Perisphingtes oxfordien
References
- ^ "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 2002. pp. 1–560. Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
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- ^ a b "Paleobiology Database - Perisphinctes". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Hemming, Francis (1954). "Opinion 303: Designation, under the Plenary Powers, of type species in harmony with current usage for the nominal genera Kosmoceras, Perisphinctes and Harpoceras (class Cephalopoda, order Ammonoidea) established by Waagen in 1869". Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 8 (20): 273–284.
- United States Geological Service, USA.
- JSTOR 769866.