Sphenodiscus Meek, 1871

Witts, James D., Landman, Neil H., Garb, Matthew P., Irizarry, Kayla M., Larina, Ekaterina, Thibault, Nicolas, Razmjooei, Mohammad J., Yancey, Thomas E. & Myers, Corinne E., 2021, Cephalopods from the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary interval on the Brazos River, Texas, and extinction of the ammonites, American Museum Novitates 2021 (3964), pp. 1-52 : 21

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1206/3964.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4585459

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Sphenodiscus Meek, 1871
status

 

Genus Sphenodiscus Meek, 1871 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES: Ammonites lenticularis Owen, 1852: 579 (non Young and Bird, 1828: 269, fig. 5), by original designation, = Ammonites lobata Tuomey, 1856: 168.

Meek, F. B. 1871. Preliminary paleontological report, consisting of lists of fossils, with descriptions of some new types etc. Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Wyoming and portions of contiguous territories 4: 287 - 318.

Owen, D. D. 1852. Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Tuomey, M. 1856. Description of some new fossils from the Cretaceous rocks of the southern States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7: 167 - 172.

Young, G., and J. Bird. 1828. A geological survey of the Yorkshire coast: describing the strata and fossils occurring between the Humber and the Tees, from the German ocean to the plain of York. 2 nd ed. Whitby, England: R. Kirby.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Cephalopoda

SubClass

Nautiloidea

Order

Ammonitida

SubOrder

Ammonitina

SuperFamily

Acanthoceratoidea

Family

Sphenodiscidae