Puzosia

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Puzosia
Temporal range: Aptian–Maastrichtian
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Fossil shell of Puzosia compressa from Madagascar, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Desmoceratidae
Subfamily: Puzosiinae
Genus: Puzosia
Bayle, 1878

Puzosia is a genus of desmoceratid ammonites, and the type genus for the Puzosiinae, which lived during the middle part of the Cretaceous, from early Aptian to Maastrichtian (125.5 to 70.6 Ma). [1] Sepkoski defines the range from Albian to Santonian. [2] The generic name comes from the Serbian words "Puž" (snail) and "oce/ose" (axis), gaining its name from the shell's snail-like appearance.[ citation needed ]

Children taxa

A Puzosia (Bhimaites) species juvenile shell in Burmese amber Puzosia Bhimaites species Burmese amber PNAS Fig2 A.jpg
A Puzosia (Bhimaites) species juvenile shell in Burmese amber

Subgenera and species of Puzosia: [1]

Description

The shell of Puzosia is basically discoidal, evolute to subinvolute, with a wide umbiicaus. Sides bear close spaced sinuous ribs, periodically interrupted by narrow sinuous constrictions, about six per whorl. Whorl section is somewhat compressed, higher than wide, with slightly convex sides and rounded venter. The suture is complexly ammonitic.

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia (Tolima), Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, the United Kingdom, United States. [1]

In 2019, a Puzosia (Bhimaites) shell was found fossilized in a 99 million-year-old chunk of Burmese amber from Myanmar, marking the first known discovery of an ammonite preserved in amber. The ammonite's shell was presumably picked up and preserved after the resin fell off a tree and tumbled across the seashore. [3] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Puzosia Bayle 1878". Fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
  2. Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
  3. "This ancient sea creature fossilized in tree resin. How'd that happen?". Science & Innovation. 2019-05-13. Archived from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  4. Dilcher, David; Wang, Bo; Zhang, Haichun; Xia, Fangyuan; Broly, Pierre; Kennedy, Jim; Ross, Andrew; Mu, Lin; Kelly, Richard (2019-05-10). "An ammonite trapped in Burmese amber". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (23): 11345–11350. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11611345Y. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1821292116 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   6561253 . PMID   31085633.

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