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Mariella dorsetensis

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae

Taxonomy
Idiohamites dorsetensis was named by Spath (1926) [DISTRIBUTION: Albian; Cosmopolitan.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Paraturrilites dorsetensis by Spath (1926); it was recombined as Mariella (Mariella) dorsetensis by Kennedy (1979), Atabekyan (1985) and Sharifi et al. (2016); it was recombined as Mariella dorsetensis by Seyed-Emami and Aryai (1981) and Mosavinia and Wilmsen (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. cenomanesis, M. escheriana, M. gallienii

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Idiohamites dorsetensis Spath
1926Paraturrilites dorsetensis Spath
1979Idiohamites dorsetensis Cooper and Kennedy p. 222 figs. 30, 31G
1979Mariella (Mariella) dorsetensis Kennedy
1981Mariella dorsetensis Seyed-Emami and Aryai
1985Mariella (Mariella) dorsetensis Atabekyan p. 35 figs. Pl 6, figs 6,6b,9
1990Idiohamites dorsetensis Henderson p. 139
2007Idiohamites dorsetensis Szives p. 111 figs. Pl 27, fig 10
2008Idiohamites dorsetensis Kennedy et al. p. 132 figs. Pl 7, figs 1-13; pl 8, figs 3-13,19,20
2016Mariella (Mariella) dorsetensis Sharifi et al. p. 606 fig. 9
2017Mariella dorsetensis Mosavinia and Wilmsen p. 116 fig. 4A

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyTurrilitidaeGill 1871
genusMariellaNowak 1916
speciesdorsetensis(Spath 1926)

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.

†Mariella dorsetensis Spath 1926
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 105.30000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Albian113.0 - 100.5Madagascar (Mahajanga) Idiohamites dorsetensis (86497)
Middle Albian - Late/Upper Albian109.0 - 99.6Switzerland Idiohamites dorsetensis (197618)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Angola Idiohamites dorsetensis (232171)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Kazakhstan Idiohamites dorsetensis (175008)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Australia (Northern Territory) Idiohamites dorsetensis (70245)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Japan (Hokkaido) Mariella dorsetensis (62181)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Turkmenistan Mariella dorsetensis (186549 186552 186553)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Iran Mariella dorsetensis (173342 174334 183700)