Exiteloceras Hyatt, 1894
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Exiteloceras Hyatt, 1894 |
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Genus Exiteloceras Hyatt, 1894 View in CoL
TYPE SPECIES: Ancyloceras jenneyi Whitfield, 1877 (p. 42, by the subsequent designation of Diener, 1925, p. 88).
Exiteloceras rude , new species
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HOLOTYPE: USNM 433778 About USNM , Navesink Formation, Big Brook , near Marlboro , Monmouth County, New Jersey.
ETYMOLOGY: Latin, rudis, rough.
DIAGNOSIS: An exceptionally coarseribbed species of Exiteloceras , with a rib index of 4.
DESCRIPTION: The holotype is a broadly, evenly curved septate fragment 37.5 mm long with a stout, oval whorl section 15.7 mm high and 13.1 mm wide; the greatest width is below midflank. The dorsum is broadly rounded and the flanks are very broadly rounded and converge to a slightly flattened, narrow venter. The ornament consists of strong, rounded, slightly rursiradiate, straight ribs with a rib index of 4. The ribs are weak on the dorsum, and strong on the flanks and venter. Each rib supports a strong, rounded tubercle at the margin of the venter. The suture is too poorly preserved for description.
DISCUSSION: This specimen is most unusual in its coarse ribbing and in its stratigraphic position. The rib index of 4 contrasts with 5 or more for comparablesized specimens of Exiteloceras jenneyi (Whitfield, 1877) , an older species. Lewyites oronensis (Lewy, 1969) (p. 127, pl. 3, figs. 10, 11), a loosely coiled planispiral heteromorph that has been found in the basal Navesink at Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, is much more densely ribbed and has tubercles on every other rib.
OCCURRENCE: This specimen was found as float in the bed of Big Brook near Marlboro, Monmouth County, New Jersey, but is presumed to be derived from the Navesink Formation.
FAMILY BACULITIDAE GILL, 1871
[= EUBACULITINAE BRUNNSCHWEILER, 1966, p. 24]
Genus Baculites Lamarck, 1799
[= Homaloceratites Hupsch, 1768, p. 110 (non binominal); Euhomaloceras Spath, 1926, p. 80 ]
TYPE SPECIES: Baculites vertebralis Lamarck, 1801 (p. 103) by subsequent designation by Meek, 1876: 391.
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