Biology:Dumortieria

Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Dumortieria Temporal range: Late Jurassic PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil of Dumortieria jamesoni.at Haus der Natur, Salzburg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Superfamily:	† Hammatoceratoidea
Family:	† Graphoceratidae
Genus:	†Dumortieria
Synonyms
Paradumortieria Elmi and Caloo-Fortier 1985 Phenakoceras Maubeuge 1949 Phenakocerites Maubeuge 1950

Dumortieria is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Graphoceratidae.

Fossil record

These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Early Jurassic, upper Toarcian age (from about 180.1 to 175.6 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus can be found in Bulgaria, Canada , France , Germany , Hungary, Iran, Italy, Spain and Tunisia.

Description

Fossil of Dumortieria radiosa

Dumortiera are rather similar to Grammoceras and Catulloceras from the same age, having a thin, discoidally evolute shell with simple, gently sigmoid ribbing and a low ventral keel, but this species has a les rounded venter and Catulloceras has a subquadrate whorl section.

Species

Species within this genus include:

• Dumortieria brancoi Benecke 1905
• Dumortieria costula Reinecke 1818
• Dumortieria gundershofensis Haug 1887
• Dumortieria insignisimilis Braun 1867
• Dumortieria jamesoni (Sow.)
• Dumortieria kochi Benecke 1905
• Dumortieria latumbilicata Geczy 1967
• Dumortieria levesquei d'Orbigny 1844
• Dumortieria meneghinii Zittel 1887
• Dumortieria moorei Lycett 1857
• Dumortieria prisca Buckman 1891
• Dumortieria pseudoradiosa Branco 1879
• Dumortieria radians Reinecke 1818
• Dumortieria radiosa Seebach 1864
• Dumortieria rustica Buckman 1902
• Dumortieria sparsicosta Haug 1887
• Dumortieria striatulocostata Quenstedt 1885
• Dumortieria tabulata Buckman 1892

See also

• List of ammonite genera

References

Wikidata ☰ Q9212928 entry