Porpoceras

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Porpoceras
Temporal range: Toarcian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Dactylioceratidae
Subfamily: Dactylioceratinae
Genus: Porpoceras
Buckman, 1911
Type species
Ammonites vortex
Simpson, 1855
Species
  • P. vortex(Simpson, 1855)
  • P. verticosum(Simpson, 1855)
  • P. vorticellum(Simpson, 1855)
  • P. polareFrebold, 1929
  • P. spinatumFrebold, 1958
  • P. gigasGuex, 1973
  • P. planiventerGuex, 1972
  • P. pseudodesplaceiGuex, 1972
  • P. crassicostatumGuex, 1972
  • P. beurleniMonestier, 1931
  • P. tenellissimumMonestier, 1931
  • P. acanthopsis(D’Orbigny, 1850)
Synonyms
  • TelodactylitesPinna & Levi-Setti, 1971
  • PlatystrophitesLevi-Setti & Pinna, 1971

Porpoceras is genus of ammonite that lived during the early and middle Toarcian stage of early Jurassic. Members of this genus existed from uppermost part of the Harpoceras serpentinum zone to the Haugia variabilis zone. [2] Their fossils were found in Europe, Asia, North America and South America. [1]

Description

Ammonites belonging to this genus have evolute shells, with compressed to depressed whorl section. Flanks were slightly convex and venter has been low. Whorl section is subrectangular. Prorsiradiate ribs are strong and fibulate on inner whorls and tuberculate to spined on the place of ventrolateral shoulder. [3] It differs from Peronoceras by not having compressed whorl section and regular fibulation. Catacoeloceras is also similar, but it has regular ventrolateral tubercules and is missing fibulation. [1]

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Transicoeloceras, which is sometimes considered to be a synonym of Catacoeloceras is genus of ammonite that lived during Toarcian stage of early Jurassic. Their fossils were found in Hungary, Italy, France, southern Spain and South America. It has evolved from Mesodactylites.

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Microdactylites, which is sometimes considered to be a synonym of Dactylioceras, is genus of ammonite that lived during early to middle Toarcian stage of early Jurassic. Their fossils were found in England, France, Italy, Germany and Hungary. Species belonging to this genus were microconchs of Dactylioceras.

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Neolioceratoides is genus of ammonites that lived during the Pliensbachian and Toarcian stages of early Jurassic. It has been considered to be a synonym of Lioceratoides, but cladistic analysis has shown, that this genus is not only valid, but they even belong to different subfamily, as Lioceratoides belongs to Harpoceratinae. Their fossils were found in Europe and northern Africa.

<i>Orthildaites</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Orthildaites is a genus of ammonites that lived during the lower Toarcian stage of early Jurassic, during Falciferum subzone.

References

  1. 1 2 3 M. K. Howarth 2013. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea.
  2. Jattiot, R., Fara, E., Brayard, A., & Vennin, E. (2016). Revised stratigraphic range of the Toarcian ammonite genus Porpoceras Buckman, 1911. Geodiversitas, 38(4), 505-513.
  3. KOVÁCS, Z. (2014). Toarcian Dactylioceratidae (Ammonitina) from the Gerecse Mts (Hungary). Hantkeniana, 9, 45-77.