Craspedites

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Tithonian|Berriasian|ref={{cite web

| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| title= Sepkoski's Online Genus Database|author-link =| year = 2002| url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| access-date = 2014-05-28 }}}}

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| taxon = Craspedites

| authority = Pavlow, 1892

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Craspedites is an ammonoid cephalopod included in the Perisphinctoidea that lived during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, found in Canada, Greenland, Poland, and the Russian Federation.

Diagnosis and range

Craspedites, described by Aleksei Petrovich Pavlow in 1892, is characterized by a small, up to about 5 cm in diameter, smooth, essentially involute shell with simple ammonitic sutures. Whorl section is rounded, venter smooth; umbilicus small, exposing the dorsal portion of the inner whorls. Main sutural elements, primary saddles and lobes, are modified by small secondaries.

Craspedites was thought to be restricted to the Upper Jurassic Tithonian until discovery of a new species, C. sachsi, described from the Berriasian age of Russia by A. E. Igolnikov in 2012, named in honour of paleontologist V.N. Sachs.{{Cite journal |author=A. E. Igolnikov |year=2012 |url=http://rogov.zwz.ru/Igolnikov,2012_Craspedites_sachsi_en.pdf |title=Craspedites (Vitaliites?) sachsi, a New Boreal Berriasian ammonite species of the North of Eastern Siberia (Nordvik Peninsula) |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=12–15 |doi=10.1134/S0031030112010066 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017012543/http://rogov.zwz.ru/Igolnikov%2C2012_Craspedites_sachsi_en.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-17 }}

Species

  • C. canadensis Jeletzky, 1966
  • C. ivanovi Gerasimov, 1960
  • C. jugensis Prigorovsky, 1906
  • C. kaschpuricus
  • C. mosquensis Gerasimov, 1960
  • C. nodiger Eichwald, 1868
  • C. planus
  • C. praeokensis Rogov, 2017
  • C. pseudofragilis Gerasimov, 1960
  • C. sachsi Igolnikov, 2012{{cite web | title= Paleobiology Database - Craspedites |author-link =| year = | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14727 | access-date = 17 December 2021 }}
  • C. shulginae Alifirov, 2009
  • C. singularis
  • C. taimyrensis
  • C. transitionis Rogov, 2017
  • C. unshensis

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book| first1=W.J. |last1=Arkell |first2=B. |last2=Kummel |first3=C.W. |last3=Wright |series=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4| title=Mesozoic Ammonoidea | publisher=Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press |location=Lawrence, Kansas|year=1957}}
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Category:Cretaceous ammonites

Category:Fossils of Poland

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1892

Category:Berriasian life

Category:Perisphinctoidea

Category:Ammonitida genera

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