Sonniniidae Ammonitina, Middle Jurassic from Southern Spain: taxonomic, biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical analysis
Author
Sandoval, José
text
Geodiversitas
2022
2022-09-15
44
27
801
851
journal article
10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a27
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Sonninia
(
Euhoploceras
) cf.
polyacantha
(
Waagen, 1867
)
[
M
] (
Figs 7N
;
8A
)
MATERIAL
EXAMINED. —
JAQ
1.3.1.
MEASUREMENTS. — See
Table 6.
DESCRIPTION
The only available specimen is an incomplete, somewhat eroded
PH
. The internal mould of the
PH
measures
88 mm
in diameter with the inner whorls, which are not preserved. The shell is a relatively evolute discoidal platycone. The whorl section is compressed subrectangular with a subvertical umbilical wall, rounded umbilical edge, and slightly convex, almost flat flanks. The venter is rounded, while the keel is hollow and partially preserved only in the first quarter of the last preserved whorl. The ribs, first slightly uneven, and then uniform, arise near the umbilical edge, radial and not strong, and fade on the upper part of the flank, where they lean slightly forward. Some of the stronger ribs appear to support small lateral tubercles. The septal suture (
Fig. 8A
) is typical of
S
.
(
Euhoploceras
), being sharply divided with a deep
L
and slightly retracted umbilical lobes.
REMARKS
In this subbetic specimen the intermediate whorls closely resemble those of the HT of
S.
(
E.
)
polyacantha
(
Waagen, 1867
)
, (refigured in
Dorn 1935
: pl. 9, fig. 1;
Schlegelmilch 1985
: pl. 17, fig. 2;
Sadki & Dietze 2021: 4
, text-fig. 7), the
two specimens
coinciding in the
type
of coiling, section, and radial ribbing, but the ribs are much weaker in the former.
DISTRIBUTION
The HT of
S.
(
E.
)
polyacantha
comes from the Laeviuscula Zone (Trigonalis Subzone) of Gingen/Fils, southern
Germany
(
Dietze
et al.
2005
;
Sadki & Dietze 2021
). The Subbetic specimen comes from the Laeviuscula Zone of the Barranco de Agua Larga section, Noalejo (Jaén Province).