A morphometric approach to conch ontogeny of Cymaclymenia and related genera (Ammonoidea, Late Devonian)
Author
Klein, C.
Author
Korn, D.
text
Fossil Record
2014
2014-02-20
17
1
1
32
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/fr-17-1-2014
journal article
10.5194/fr-17-1-2014
2193-0074
10965299
Cymaclymenia serotina
n. sp.
Figure 24
Derivation of name: After Lat.
serotinus
,
-a
,
-um
(adj.) = delayed; because of the late stratigraphic occurrence.
Holotype
: Specimen
MB
.C.22605.1 (Korn 1995 Coll.); illustrated here in
Fig. 24a
.
Type locality and horizon: Erfoud (Anti-Atlas), immediately east of the Muslim cemetery on the eastern side of the Ziz Valley; bed 55 of
Korn (1999)
,
Parawocklumeria paradoxa
Assemblage
(late Famennian).
Material:
10 specimens
with a maximum conch diameter of
45 mm
.
Diagnosis: Species of
Cymaclymenia
with thinly discoidal conch in the adult stage (ww / dm = 0.30); whorl cross section weakly compressed (ww / wh = 0.65). Conch shape in the intermediate stage (
10 mm
dm) thinly discoidal and subinvolute (ww / dm = 0.33; uw / dm = 0.25–0.30). Umbilical wall oblique in the adult stage, flanks moderately converging, venter rounded. Ornament with almost smooth and extremely fine biconvex growth lines, without riblets.
Discussion:
C. serotina
differs from nearly all other species of the genus in the very faint conch ornament. The species differs from
Cymaclymenia formosa
and the other Moroccan species with slender conchs by the extremely fine ornament, which consists of very delicate growth lines. In this respect it is similar to
C. lambidia
, but this species has a stouter conch.