Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: †Ammonoidea
Ordo: †Ammonitida
Subordo: Phylloceratina
Superfamilia: Phylloceratoidea
Familia: Phylloceratidae
Subfamilia: Calliphylloceratinae
Genus: Calliphylloceras
Name
Calliphylloceras Spath, 1927
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 11/29/08
Calliphylloceras is an ammonite belonging to the Phylloceratidae.
Species
Species within this genus include:[2]
Calliphylloceras alontinum (Gemmellaro, 1884)
Calliphylloceras bicicolae
Calliphylloceras capitanii
Calliphylloceras demidoffi (Rousseau, 1842)
Calliphylloceras disputabile (type) Spath, 1927
Calliphylloceras freibrocki Imlay, 1953
Calliphylloceras kochi (Oppel, 1865)
Calliphylloceras nilssoni
Calliphylloceras nizinanum
Calliphylloceras propinquum
Calliphylloceras seroplicatum
Calliphylloceras spadae
Calliphylloceras supraliasicum
The holotype of C disputabile, the type species, named by Spath in 1927, which came from the Middle Jurassic of Hungary, is based on Phylloceras disputabile Zittil. Neocalliphylloceras Bresairie 1936, Captianioceras Kuvacs 1939 and Euphylloceras Draughtchitz 1953 are equivalent genera.[3]
Description
Fossil shell of Calliphylloceras spadae. Museum specimen
Calliphylloceras has a smooth, compressed involute shell with a rounded venter and periodic constrictions in the internal mold; surface covered with lirae as in Phylloceras. The first and 2nd lateral saddles are usually triphyllic, others diphyllic.[3]
Distribution
This species has been found in the Cretaceous of Bulgaria, Canada, France, Japan, United States and in the Jurassic of Argentina, Austria, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, the Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, United States[2]
Bibliography
Imlay 1960. Early Cretaceous (albian) Ammonites from the Chitina Valley and Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska. US Geological Survey PP 354-D
References
Notes
Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
Paleobiology Database
Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
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