Lawrenceoceras ebenus Kröger & Pohle 2021, sp. nov
Creators
- 1. Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, PO Box 44, FI- 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
- 2. Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Description
Lawrenceoceras ebenus sp. nov
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Figs 5D–E, 6A, 7B, 8A
DiagnosisExogastrically curved conch with angle of expansion of conch width of ca 8° and slightly depressed conch cross section (rW = 1.12); ornamented with fine directly transverse striae and rugae. Siphuncle small, 0.1 of conch height and near conch margin.
EtymologyIn honour to the Svalbard Husky “Ebony”, from the Latin ‘ hebenus ’, ‘ebony’.
Type materialHolotype Specimen FMNH-P30335; by monotypy.
Type locality and horizonProfilstranda section, adjacent to Hinlopenstretet, Spitsbergen, bed Po123.3, 120.3 m above base of Olenidsletta Member, V 2a trilobite zone, Blackhillsian, Floian.
DescriptionSpecimen FMNH-P30335 is a fragment of a curved phragmocone and part of a body chamber with a length of 31 mm and a conch width of 9–13.3 mm (angle of expansion ca 8°). The preserved part of the body chamber is 8 mm long.
The conch surface is ornamented with fine directly transverse striae, 10–12 striae occur per mm at a conch height of ca 11 mm. The adoral ca 10 mm of the fragment surface is additionally ornamented with irregularly spaced rugae. Striae form a very shallow hyponomic sinus on the convex side of the conch curvature.
The conch cross section is slightly depressed, with a height of 11.1 mm where the width is 12.5 mm (rW = 1.12). The septa are narrowly spaced, ca 10–12 chambers occur per distance similar to corresponding conch.
At the adapical end of the specimen the septal perforation is positioned ca 0.7 mm from the conch margin positioned on the convex side of the conch curvature and has a diameter of 0.7 mm. The connecting ring is thick and with concave segments. The septal necks are short and loxochoanitic.
ComparisonLawrenceoceras ebenus sp. nov. is similar in conch cross section to L. larus sp. nov., but differs from the latter species and other species of this genus in having a distinctively ornamented conch surface.
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FMNH-P
- Family
- Bassleroceratidae
- Genus
- Lawrenceoceras
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- FMNH-P30335
- Order
- Ellesmerocerida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Kröger & Pohle
- Species
- ebenus
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lawrenceoceras ebenus Kröger & Pohle, 2021
References
- Evans D. H. & King A. H. 1990. The affinities of early oncocerid nautiloids from the Lower Ordovician of Spitsbergen and Sweden. Palaeontology 33: 623 - 630.