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3 January 2019 A Possible Phylogenetic Relationship of Two Species of Hyphantoceras (Ammonoidea, Nostoceratidae) in the Cretaceous Yezo Group, Northern Japan
Daisuke Aiba
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Abstract

A possible phylogenetic relationship of two species of Hyphantoceras (Ammonoidea, Nostoceratidae) was proposed, based on newly found specimens with precise stratigraphic occurrences in the Kotanbetsu and Obira areas, northwestern Hokkaido. Two closely related species, Hyphantoceras transitorium and H. orientale, were recognized in the examined specimens from the Kotanbetsu and Obira areas. Specimens of H. transitorium show wide intraspecific variation in the whorl shape. The stratigraphic occurrences of the two species indicate that they occur successively in the Santonian–lowermost Campanian, without stratigraphic overlapping. The similarity of their shell surface ornamentations and the stratigraphic relationships possibly suggest that H.orientale was derived from H. transitorium. The presumed lineage is likely indigenous to the northwestern Pacific realm in the Santonian–earliest Campanian. Hyphantoceras venustum and H. heteromorphum might stand outside a H. transitorium–H. orientale lineage, judging from differences of their shell surface ornamentation.

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Daisuke Aiba "A Possible Phylogenetic Relationship of Two Species of Hyphantoceras (Ammonoidea, Nostoceratidae) in the Cretaceous Yezo Group, Northern Japan," Paleontological Research 23(1), 65-79, (3 January 2019). https://doi.org/10.2517/2018PR010
Received: 11 April 2017; Accepted: 31 May 2018; Published: 3 January 2019
KEYWORDS
Cretaceous
heteromorph ammonoid
Hyphantoceras
intraspecific variation
lineage
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