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Acleistoceras whitfieldi (Cleland, 1907)

Acleistoceras whitfieldi
Acleistoceras whitfieldi

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Oncocerida
Family: Acleistoceratidae
Genus: Acleistoceras
Species: Acleistoceras whitfieldi (Cleland, 1907)

Information

Geological Range

Middle Devonian

Paleogeographic Distribution

Wisconsin

Stratigraphic Occurrences

Milwaukee Formation
Berthelet Member

References

Gass et al. (2019): p. 105, fig. 197, fig. 196 (UWM-GM 9475); p. 102, fig. 188B (MPM P11479).

Remarks

From Cleland (1907, p. 464): “Shell medium, sub-triangular in a longitudinal section. Transerve section oval or circular. Conch rapidly and regularly enlarging to the point of greatest transverse section, which is about midway between the last septum and the aperture of the chamber of habitation, thence contracting more gradually to the aperture.” Gomphoceras whitfeldi by Cleland in 1907.

Online Resources

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Media

Images

Photograph of fossil of Acleistoceras whitfieldi.
Acleistoceras whitfieldi from the Milwaukee Fm., Berthelet Mbr. of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (MPM P3186).

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