Normannites
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{{Taxobox
|fossil_range = {{fossil range|Bajocian|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 }}}}
|image = Stephanoceratidae - Normannites braikenridgei.JPG
|image_caption = Fossil specimen of Normannites braikenridgei from Mid Jurassic - Germany
|regnum = Animalia
|phylum = Mollusca
|classis = Cephalopoda
|subclassis = Ammonoidea
|ordo = Ammonitida
|familia = Stephanoceratidae
|genus = Normannites
|genus_authority = Munier-Chalmas, 1892
}}
Normannites is a strongly ribbed evolute Middle Jurassic genus of ammonite included in the stephanoceratoid family Stephanoceratidae.
Normanites was previously included in the Otoitidae by Arkell et al. 1957. More recent classifications show it to belong to the family Stephanoceratidae, along with genera like Stephanoceras and Stemmatoceras.
Description
Normannites has shells reaching a diameter of {{convert|52|-|55|mm}}. These shells have large lappets, curved plate-like structures that project forward on either side of the aperture. Primary ribs on the inner side of each whorl are large and close spaced, bifurcate about mid flank before continuing over the venter. Secondary ribs, when present, appear about mid flank between primary pairs.
Stephanoceras differs in its tendency to develop tubercles at the point of furcation in the primary ribs. Primary ribs, low on the whorls, in Stemmatoceras tend to be narrower and sharper.
Selected species
- Normannites braikenridgei † (Sowerby 1852) - The Latin name of this species honors George Weare Braikenridge (1775 - 1856), an English antiquarian and collector of fossils.
- Normannites boulderensis † Imlay 1982
Distribution
References
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- {{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}}
- [http://www.jsdammonites.fr/391.html Normanites sp]
External links
- [http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/mollusca/cephalopoda/ammonoidea/ammonitida.html Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: Ammonitida]
- [https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonposition/id134089/ Biolib]
- [http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings?page=86&search_term=ns%3ANOR* Global Names Index]
, jsdammonites.fr
- [http://crioceratites.free.fr/stephanoceratidae.htm Stephanoceratidae], crioceratites.free.fr. Incl Normanites
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Category:Jurassic animals of Asia
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