Hyperlioceras

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Hyperlioceras
Temporal range: Bajocian [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Graphoceratidae
Subfamily: Graphoceratinae
Genus: Hyperlioceras
Buchman, 1889
Species [2]

Hyperlioceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod included in the ammonitid family Graphoceratidae that lived during the Bajocian stage of the Middle Jurassic. The type species is Hyperlioceras discites (Waagen, 18567)

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Morphology

The shell of Hyperlioceras is very compressed and involute, with a tall persistent keel and a deep umbilicus.

Biostratigraphic significance

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has defined the base of the Bajocian Stage of the Jurassic as the lowest occurrence of the genus Hyperlioceras, at 170.3 ± 1.4 million years ago, which defines base of the Hyperlioceras discites Zone. This point also marks the end of the preceding Aalenian Stage. The upper boundary of the Bajocian is indicated by the lowest occurrence of the ammonite Parkinsonia (G.) convergens, at about 167.7 Ma, which defines base of Zigzagiceras zigzag Zone.

Distribution

Luxembourg, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the United Kingdom. [2]

Synonyms

Source: [2]

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References

  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database" . Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  2. 1 2 3 Paleobiology Database - Hyperlioceras. 2017-10-16.