Leymeriellidae

Leymeriellidae
Temporal range: Albian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Acanthoceratoidea
Family: Leymeriellidae
Breistroffer, 1951
Genera
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Leymeriellidae is a family of Lower Cretaceous ammonites comprising rather small forms distinguished from Hoplitidae by their flattened and grooved ribs and virtual absence of umbilical tubercles. The family is suggested to be derived from the Desmoceratidae.

Taxonomic position

Leymeriellidae are currently regarded is belonging to the Acanthoceratoidea according to W. J. Kennedy et al (1980). The previous placement was in the Hoplitoidea according W.J. Arkell et al (1957) in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L.[1]

Genera

Leymeriellidae includes the following genera.
Leymeriella Jacob 1907. Shell evolute, venter flat to sulcate. Ribs single, wide spaced, grooved in outer part. Lower Albian to Middle Albian
Proleymeriella Breistroffer 1947. Shell moderately evolute, whorl section oval with contrictions present throughout. Ribs single, strong, form chevrons on a narrowly rounded to accute venter. Lower Albian
Epileymeriella Breistroffer 1947. Differs from Leymeriella in that the ribs branch from weak umbilical bullae. Lower Albian

References

  1. Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
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