Tokurites
| Tokurites Temporal range: Toarcian | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Dactylioceratidae |
| Genus: | †Tokurites Repin, 2016 |
| Type species | |
| Tokurites inopinatus Repin, 2016 | |
Tokurites is monospecific genus of ammonite that lived during the Toarcian stage of early Jurassic, ammonite zone of Zugodactylites braunianus. Its shell has ribs, which are crossing ventral part of the shell and are creating pricky tubercules there. By these tubercules, it differs from any other member of Dactylioceratidae. This genus is closely related to genus Reynesoceras. Genus is based on the single specimen with diameter of 15 mm and thus consist from only one species Tokurites inopinatus. This only specimen has been found in asian part of Russia.[1]
References
- 1 2 Repin Yu.S. Ammonitovaya shkala nizhney yury Severo-Vostoka Azii [Lower Jurassic ammonite geologic time scale of Northeast Asia]. Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika, 2016, vol. 11, no. 4, available at: http://www.ngtp.ru/rub/2/47_2016.pdf
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