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Imitoceras sinuatum

Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Prionoceratidae

Taxonomy
Imitoceras sinuatum was named by Gordon (1964). Its type specimen is USNM 119465, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 14346, White River at Glenn Creek, which is in a Kinderhookian carbonate limestone in the Walls Ferry Formation of Arkansas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Imitoceras sinuatum Gordon p. 167 figs. Pl 16, figs 12-14; text-fig 32

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassColeoideaBather 1888
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonoida(Haeckel 1866)
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderTornoceratinaWedekind 1918
superfamilyPrionoceratoidea()
familyPrionoceratidaeHyatt 1884
subfamilyImitoceratinae()
genusImitocerasSchindewolf 1923
speciessinuatum

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Imitoceras sinuatum Gordon 1964
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height210.310.010.610.30.424
shell diameter218.217.618.918.20.919
shell inflation20.0010.0010.0010.001-

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:36:55
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:36:08
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Kinderhookian or 358.86000 to 351.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kinderhookian358.86 - 351.9USA (Arkansas) Imitoceras sinuatum (157673 type locality: 157674)