Juraphyllites libertus ( Gemmellaro, 1884 )

Juraphyllites libertus ( Gemmellaro, 1884) View in CoL

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* 1884 Phylloceras libertum Gemmellaro , p. 168, pl. 2, fig. 1–5

1980 Juraphyllites libertus (Gemmellaro) ; Castelli, pl. 2, fig. 1 (idem 383)

2007 Juraphyllites libertus (Gemmellaro) ; Géczy & Meister, pl. 7, fig. 4. with synonymy

2011a Juraphyllites libertus (Gemmellaro) ; Meister et al., p. 117.e8, figs. 5.3, 9

2017 Juraphyllites ( Juraphyllites) gr. libertus (Gemmellaro) ; Dommergues & Meister, p. 201, fig. 10

2017 Juraphyllites libertus (Gemmellaro) ; Meister et al., pl. 2, figs. 8, 11.

2018 Juraphyllites libertus (Gemmellaro) ; Lukeneder & Lukeneder, p. 99, figs. 7c, d

2023 Juraphyllites libertus (Gemmellaro) ; Zaitsev & Ippolitov, pl. 1, fig. 7

2024 Juraphyllites cf. libertus (Gemmellaro) ; Meister et al., fig. 5g –n, with additional synonymy

Material: A single incomplete specimen (Ge 33500) with recrystallised shell.

Descriptions: Planispiral and involute, immature specimen. For a detailed description and discussion of the specimen, see Rakús (1987; p. 14).

Occurrence: It ranges from the Upper Sinemurian to the basal Toarcian (Dommergues & Meister, 2017). Juraphyllites libertus occurs in the Western Tethys (e.g. Lukeneder & Lukeneder 2018), in the southern part of the Euroboreal Domain (Joly, 2000), Crimea ( Zaitsev & Ippolitov, 2023), Pontides (Alkaya & Meister, 1995) and Caucasus ( Topchishvili et al., 2006).