Specimen from borehole Lublin 64 (depth 933,4 m; Westfallian A, Dunbarella zone)

Diagnoza

Tube short, rapidly growing, involute, coiled in at most three whorls, ending the last whorl with a high, wide aperture; cross-section high and narrow ogival; disc thickest in umbilical region, with oblique sides flattened towards the back; back narrow and smooth; shell thin, with rich transverse stripes, initially curved strongly forwards, forming a deep bay on the back, without longitudinal stripes and ridges.

Porównanie

Transitional from Anthracoceras to Dimorphoceras .

Autekologia

Występowanie geograficzne

Germany (Rhenish Slate Mts.), Great Britain (Staffordshire), Poland (Lublin Coal Basin)

Zasięg czasowy

Carboniferous, Moscovian (Westphalian A. dunbarella marine horizon).

Materiały muzealne

Literatura

Bisat, W. S. 1930. On Cravenoceras leion, the basement goniatite of the Upper Carboniferous. Transactions of the Leeds Geological Associationt 20, 28–32.

Bojkowski, K. 1979. Gonatyty z karbonu Górnośląskiego i Lubelskiego Zagłębia Węglowego.  Biuletyn Instytutu Geologicznego 311: 5-68.

Dzik, J. 1997. Emergence and succession of Carboniferous conodont and ammonoid communities in the Polish part of the Variscan sea. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42, 57-170.

Ludwig, R. 1863. Meer-Gonchylien aus der productiven Steinkohlen-Formation an der Ruhr. Palaeontographica - Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Vorzeit 10: 276 - 291.

Miller, A.K. & Furnish, W.M. 1958. The goniatite genus Anthracoceras. Journal of Paleontology 32: 684-686.

Musiał, Ł. & Tabor, M. 1988. Stratygrafia karbonu na podstawie makrofauny. In. Z. Dembowski & J. Porzycki (eds.), Karbon Lubelskiego Zagłębia Węglowego. Prace Instytutu Geologicznego 122: 88-111.