A morphometric approach to conch ontogeny of Cymaclymenia and related genera (Ammonoidea, Late Devonian)
Author
Klein, C.
Author
Korn, D.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/fr-17-1-2014
journal article
10.5194/fr-17-1-2014
2193-0074
10965299
Procymaclymenia
Korn, 2002
Type
species:
Cymaclymenia inflata
Czarnocki, 1989
, p. 67
(original designation (Korn in
Korn and Klug, 2002
, p. 220); not “
Cymaclymenia fundifera
Czarnocki, 1989
” as erroneously stated on p. 280).
Genus definition: Genus of the
Cymaclymeniidae
with blunt, slightly asymmetric lateral lobe.
Discussion:
Procymaclymenia
is a genus that closely resembles
Cymaclymenia
in conch shape, but differs in the less developed lateral lobe. While this lobe in
Cymaclymenia
is strongly asymmetric and pointed at the ventral side, it is less asymmetric in
Procymaclymenia
and does not show the acute ventral side. The genus has thus an intermediate position between
Genuclymenia
(with widely rounded lateral lobe) and
Cymaclymenia
(with acute lateral lobe).
The genus has a much more restricted geographic occurrence than
Cymaclymenia
. Records are so far only known from the Holy Cross Mountains (
Czarnocki, 1989
), the South Urals (
Nikolaeva and Bogoslovsky, 2005
) and North Africa.