Telodactylites

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

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = {{fossil range|Toarcian}}

| taxon = Telodactylites

| authority = Pinna et Levi-Setti, 1971

| type_species = Peronoceras eucosmus

| type_species_authority = Lippi-Boncambi, 1947

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • T. eucosmus Lippi-Boncambi, 1947
  • T. renzi Pinna et Levi-Setti, 1971
  • T. levisettii Kovacs, 2014
  • T. achermani Pinna & Levi-Setti, 1971
  • T. desplacei d'Orbigny, 1844

| synonyms =

}}

Telodactylites, which is sometimes considered to be a synonym of PorpocerasM. K. Howarth 2013. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea. is genus of ammonite that lived during Toarcian stage (Gradatus ammonite Zone) of early Jurassic. Their fossils were found in Europe, northern Africa and South America. It has probably evolved from Mesodactylites.

Description

Ammonites belonging to this genus have small to medium-sized shells. Coiling is evolute, while whorl section is depressed, subtrapezoidal with oblique flanks and broad and low venter, maximum width is at shoulder. Umbilicus is wide and deep. Sharp, fibulate ribs are dense, tuberculate and spined.Kovács, Z. (2014). Toarcian Dactylioceratidae (Ammonitina) from the Gerecse Mts (Hungary). Hantkeniana, 9, 45-77.

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