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Freboldiceras singulare

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae

Taxonomy
Freboldiceras singulare was named by Imlay (1959). Its type specimen is USNM 129868, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic 24877, Billy Creek, which is in an Albian marginal marine horizon in the Matanuska Formation of Alaska.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Freboldiceras singulare Imlay pp. 182, 183 figs. pl. 30, figs. 1-7
1960Freboldiceras singulare Imlay p. 102
1967Freboldiceras singulare Jones p. 37 figs. Pl 7, figs 1-25; text-fig 18
1970Freboldiceras singulare Nagy p. 48 figs. Pl 6, fig 3; text-fig 11c

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyCleoniceratidae()
subfamilyArcthoplitinae
genusFreboldiceras
speciessingulare

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height812.64.4024.014.06.21
shell diameter828.410.055.031.314.2
shell inflation87.832.9014.07.853.75

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: Early/Lower Albian or 113.20000 to 110.10000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1Svalbard and Jan Mayen Freboldiceras singulare (174880)
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1USA (Alaska) Freboldiceras singulare (type locality: 38514 88907 88908)