Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: †Ammonoidea
Ordo: Ammonitida
Subordo: Ammonitina
Superfamilia: Perisphinctoidea
Familia: Neocomitidae
Subfamilia: Neocomitinae
Genus: Karakaschiceras
Species: K. attenuatus

Name

Karakaschiceras attenuatus (Behrendsen) Riccardi 1988

Synonyms

  • Amaltheus(?) attenuatus Behrendsen 1892
  • Leopoldia elauta Leanza & Giovine 1949
  • Leopoldia elauta tumida Leanza & Giovine 1949
  • Leopoldia attenuata (Behrendsen) Riccardi, Westermann, & Levy 1971

Type locality

Early Cretaceous (mid-Valanginian); lower Agrio Formation, Arroyo Truquico, Neuquen basin, Argentina

Type material

Holotype: Geologisch-Palaontologisches Institut, Georg-August Universitat, Göttingen, Germany GPIG498-29

References

  • Aguirre-Urreta, Maria B. (1998); "The Ammonites Karakaschiceras and Neohoploceras (Valanginian Neocomitidae) from the Neuquen Basin, West-Central Argentina" Journal of Paleontology 72(1):39-59
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