Perisphinctes

Perisphinctes
Temporal range: Callovian–Tithonian[1]
Exhibit from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Perisphinctidae
Subfamily: †Perisphinctinae
Genus: †Perisphinctes
Waagen, 1869[2]
Type species
Ammonites variocostatus[4]
Buckland, 1836
Species[3]
  • P. abadiensis
  • P. arussiorum
  • P. birmensdorfensis
  • P. choffati
  • P. gallarum
  • P. hillebrandti
  • P. jubailensis
  • P. parandieri
  • P. picteti
  • P. roubyanus
  • P. stenocyclus
  • P. variocostatus

Perisphinctes is an extinct genus of ammonite cephalopod. They lived during the Middle to Late Jurassic epochs and serve as an index fossil for that time period.[5] The species P. boweni was named after the English chemist and geologist E. J. Bowen (1898–1980).[6]

  1. ^ "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 2002. pp. 1–560. Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Waagen, 1869 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Paleobiology Database - Perisphinctes". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hemming, 1954 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Index Fossils, United States Geological Service, USA.
  6. ^ Bell, R. P. (November 1981). "Edmund John Bowen 29 April 1898 – 19 November 1980 Elected F.R.S. 1935". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 27: 83–101. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0004. JSTOR 769866.