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Prionoceratidae Hyatt 1884

  • 1. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions-und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.

Description

Family Prionoceratidae Hyatt, 1884

[nom. correct. Bogoslovsky (1971: 180), pro Prionocerae Hyatt, 1884]

Diagnosis

Family of the superfamily Prionoceratoidea with the sutural formula E A L U I or (E 1 E m E 1) A L U I in some advanced forms; adventive lobe deep, V-shaped or lanceolate and pointed, only rarely blunt; the lateral lobe has a position on the umbilical seam. Conch in the juvenile stage usually subinvolute, in some lineages subevolute or evolute; adult stage usually involute, but subinvolute in some genera. Shell ornament with fine to coarse growth lines, mostly without ribs.

Included subfamilies

Prionoceratinae Hyatt, 1884; Imitoceratinae Ruzhencev, 1950; Karagandoceratinae Librovitch, 1957; Voehringeritinae Bartzsch & Weyer, 1988; Acutimitoceratinae Korn, 1994; Balviinae Korn in Korn & Klug, 2002.

Notes

Published as part of Korn, Dieter & Weyer, Dieter, 2023, The ammonoids from the Gattendorfia Limestone of Gattendorf (Devonian-Carboniferous boundary; Upper Franconia, Germany), pp. 1-61 in European Journal of Taxonomy 883 on page 6, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.883.2179, http://zenodo.org/record/8177861

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Prionoceratidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Goniatitida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Hyatt
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Prionoceratidae Hyatt, 1884 sec. Korn & Weyer, 2023

References

  • Bogoslovsky B. I. 1971. Devonskie ammonoidei. II. Goniatity. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSSR 127: 1 - 228.
  • Librovitch L. S. 1957. O nekotorykh novykh gruppakh goniatitov iz kamennougolnykh otlozheniy SSSR. Ezhegodnik Vsesoyuznogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva 16: 246 - 273.