Eleniceras nikolovi

Eleniceral nikolovi
Ruhovtzi, Elena, Bulgaria.
SUMPHG

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Perisphinctoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Cephalopoda Subclassis: †Ammonoidea Ordo: †Ammonitida Subordo: †Ammonitina Superfamilia: †Perisphinctoidea

Familia: † Neocomitidae
Subfamilia: †Neocomitinae
Genus: †Eleniceras
Species: †Eleniceras nikolovi

Name

Eleniceras nikolovi Breskovski 1967

Type locality: Early Cretaceous (early Hauterivian), zone Radiatus, south of the village of Ruhovtzi (in Bulgarian: Руховци), near the town of Elena, northern Bulgaria.

Type material: SUMPHG

Derivatio nominis: After the Bulgarian paleontologist Todor Georgiev Nikolov.

References

• Breskovski, S.V. 1967. Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hautériviens. Bull. Geol. Inst., Ser. Paleontology 16: 47–52.
• Vašíček, Z. 2002. Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea in the Podbranc quarry (Pieniny Klippen Belt, Slovakia). Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey 77(3): 187-200.

Links

• Eleniceras nikolovi at the Paleobiology database, Accessed on 31 December 2021
• Eleniceras nikolovi at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Accessed on 6 April 2012
• Eleniceras nikolovi at the Index to Organism Names (ION), Accessed on 7 April 2012