The pharciceratid ammonoids from the Roteisenstein Formation of Dillenburg (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea)
Author
Korn, Dieter
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Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
dieter.korn@mfn.berlin
Author
Bockwinkel, Jürgen
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Dechant-Fein-Strasse 22, 51375 Leverkusen, Germany.
jbockwinkel@t-online.de
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2021
2021-09-23
771
1
79
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.771.1503
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Sandbergeroceras costatum
(
d’Archiac & de Verneuil, 1842
)
Figs 50B
,
51A
,
53A
;
Table 31
Goniatites costatus
d’Archiac & de Verneuil, 1842: 340
, pl. 31 fig. 1, 1a.
Triainoceras costatum
– Hyatt 1884: 336. — Korn &
Klug 2002: 148
, text-fig. 137h.
Sandbergeroceras costatum
–
Schindewolf 1940: 434
, pl. 1 figs 4–5, text-fig. 32.
non
Triainoceras costatum
–
Frech 1897: 177
e, fig. 1b, e; 1902: 62, fig. 20c. —
Belka
et al
. 1999
: pl. 5 figs 1–2. — Korn &
Klug 2002: 148
, text-fig. 137d, f.
non
Triaenoceras costatum
–
Drevermann 1903: 85
, pl. 5 figs 1–5.
non
Sandbergeroceras costatum
–
Termier & Termier 1950: 54
, pl. 150 figs 52–54.
non
Pharciceras
(
Sandbergeroceras
)
costatum
–
Petter 1959: 144
, pl. 8 fig. 13, 13a, text-fig.
33g
, l.
Diagnosis
Species of
Sandbergeroceras
with discoidal, evolute conch at
30 mm
dm (ww /dm ~0.45; uw/ dm ~ 0.40). Whorl profile weakly depressed (ww/ wh ~1.30); venter narrowly rounded. Two moderately deep spiral grooves on the venter. Shell ornament with 30 sigmoidal, sharp ribs on the flanks and coarse growth lines.
Material examined
Neotype
(here designated)
GERMANY
•
Rhenish Mountains
,
Dillenburg
;
early Frasnian
(Red Ironstone);
Erbreich
Coll.;
MB.C.7695
. (
Fig. 50B
)
Remarks to the
type
material
The whereabouts of the original material is not known. The specimen illustrated by
d’Archiac & de Verneuil (1842
: pl. 36 fig. 1) does not exist in the de Verneuil collection at the University of Lyon, where other original specimens of this work are located (Emmanuel Robert, written comm.,
April 8
th
, 2021
). However, the description and illustration by
d’Archiac & de Verneuil (1842)
allows the species to be characterised (
Fig. 53
). The only available specimen MB.C.7695 corresponds well with the one illustrated by
d’Archiac & de Verneuil (1842)
, in conch form as well as sculpture and suture line. It can therefore, with little doubt, be considered conspecific. It is herewith proposed as the
neotype
of the species.
Description
MB.C.7695: incomplete, somewhat distorted specimen of about
42 mm
conch diameter in iron-rich limestone (
Fig. 50B
). Although somewhat deformed laterally, it allows the study of conch geometry and ontogenetic development. At
33 mm
diameter, the conch is discoidal and subevolute (ww / dm ~ 0.45, uw/ dm ~0.40) with a broad pear-shaped whorl profile (ww /wh ~ 1.30), which is widest in the middle of the flanks. The umbilical edge is rounded; the external side has a rounded keel accompanied by
Fig. 53.
Triainoceratidae
from the Red Ironstone Formation, all reproduced from
d’Archiac & de Verneuil (1842)
.
A
.
Sandbergeroceras costatum
(
d’Archiac & de Verneuil, 1842
)
.
B
.
Sandbergeroceras incertum
(
d’Archiac & de Verneuil, 1842
)
.
C
.
Sandbergeroceras tuberculosum
(
d’Archiac & de Verneuil, 1842
)
. Scale bar units = 1 mm.
Table 31.
Conch dimensions and ratios of selected specimen of
Sandbergeroceras costatum
(
d’Archiac & de Verneuil, 1842
)
.
Specimen |
dm |
ww |
wh |
uw |
ah |
ww / dm |
ww / wh |
uw / dm |
WER |
IZR
|
MB.C.7695 |
33.2 |
15.1 |
11.7 |
13.5 |
7.3 |
0.45 |
1.29 |
0.41 |
1.64 |
0.38 |
shallow longitudinal grooves. The interior whorls are poorly preserved and do not allow any study of the ornament. The last one and one-half whorls possess sharp ribs, which initially extend with a concave curve, then straight and finally with a slightly convex curve over the flank. The penultimate whorl shows sharp growth lines with the same course as the ribs.
Only a short portion of the suture line is visible in the ventral area. The external lobe is parallel-sided with a median saddle that reaches about half the height of the lobe. The E 1 lobe is very narrow and very deep (
Fig.51A
).
Remarks
Sandbergeroceras costatum
differs from
S. tuberculosocostatum
in the form of the whorl profile, which is much stouter in
S. costatum
(ww/ wh ~
1.30 in
comparison to ~
1.10 in
S. tuberculosocostatum
). The whorl profile begins to flatten with a subacute venter already at about
30 mm
conch diameter in
S. tuberculosocostatum
, while the venter is still rounded at this diameter in
S. costatum
.
The main difference to
S. archiaci
sp. nov.
is that the ventrolateral grooves are less pronounced in
S. costatum
. The umbilicus is, at a comparable diameter, narrower in
S. costatum
(ww/ dm ~
0.40 in
S. costatum
but ~
0.50 in
S. archiaci
sp. nov.
).