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Idiohamites pulchellus

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae

Taxonomy
Idiohamites pulchellus was named by Kennedy and Cobban (1990). Its type specimen is USNM 423790, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic 22871, Alzada, which is in a Cenomanian marine shale in the Belle Fourche Shale Formation of Montana.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
I. alternatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Idiohamites pulchellus Kennedy and Cobban p. 416 figs. Pl 7, figs 63,64,69-71

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyAnisoceratidae
genusIdiohamitesSpath 1925
speciespulchellus

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.

†Idiohamites pulchellus Kennedy and Cobban 1990
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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 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Middle Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (Montana) Idiohamites pulchellus (type locality: 175422)