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Koenenitidae Becker & House 1993

  • 1. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions-und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
  • 2. Dechant-Fein-Strasse 22, 51375 Leverkusen, Germany.

Description

Family Koenenitidae Becker & House, 1993

Diagnosis

Family of the superfamily Gephuroceratoidea with discoidal conch with moderately narrow to closed umbilicus; rounded venter in early species but acute venter in late species. Growth lines with high ventrolateral projection. Sutural evolution with proliferation of umbilical lobes during phylogeny. Sutural formula (E 2 E 1 E 2) L U 2:U 1 I to (E 2 E 1 E 2) L U 2: U 3 U 1 I; lateral lobe simple, usually V-shaped.

Included genera

Koenenites Wedekind, 1913; Hoeninghausia Gürich, 1896; Timanites Mojsisovics, 1882; Protimanites Ljaschenko, 1956 (synonym of Hoeninghausia); Komioceras Bogoslovsky, 1958.

Notes

Published as part of Korn, Dieter & Bockwinkel, Jürgen, 2022, The early gephuroceratid ammonoids from the Roteisenstein Formation of Dillenburg (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea), pp. 10-47 in European Journal of Taxonomy 823 on page 34, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.823.1811, http://zenodo.org/record/6628057

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Biodiversity

Family
Koenenitidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ammonoidea
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Becker & House
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Koenenitidae Becker, 1993 sec. Korn & Bockwinkel, 2022

References

  • Wedekind R. 1913. Die Goniatitenkalke des unteren Oberdevon von Martenberg bei Adorf. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1913: 23 - 77.