Pseudarietites westfalicus Schmidt 1924
Creators: name: Korn, Dieter
name: Weyer, Dieter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Goniatitida
Pseudarietitidae
Pseudarietites
Pseudarietites westfalicus

description: Pseudarietites westfalicus Schmidt, 1924
Figs 8E, 110–112; Tables 106–107
Pseudarietites westfalicus Schmidt, 1924: 152, pl. 8 fig. 12.
Pseudarietites westfalicus – Schmidt 1925: 536, pl. 19 fig. 7. — Korn 1994: 78, text-figs 70d–e, 71d, 72b; 2006: text-fig. 4d. — Kullmann 2009: text-fig. 5.2b–c.
Pseudarietites westfalicus westfalicus – Vöhringer 1960: 163, pl. 6 fig. 11, text-fig. 40. — Weyer 1965: 448.
Diagnosis
Species of Pseudarietites with a conch reaching 40 mm diameter. Conch at 15 mm dm thinly discoidal, subevolute (ww/dm ~0.40; uw/dm ~0.42). Whorl profile at 15 mm dm weakly depressed (ww/wh ~1.25); coiling rate low (WER ~1.70). Venter broadly rounded with distinct keel between two distinct grooves, umbilical margin rounded. On the flank 25 sharp ribs with concave course.
Holotype
GERMANY • Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone; Schmidt Coll.; illustrated by Schmidt (1924: pl. 8, fig. 12) and Korn (2006: text-fig. 4d); re-illustrated here in Fig. 110; BGRB X5716.
Additional material
GERMANY • 3 specimens; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone; Schindewolf 1925 Coll.; MB.C.31212.1–3 • 2 specimens; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 3b; Vöhringer Coll.; GPIT- PV-63978, GPIT-PV-63980 • 1 specimen; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 3c; Vöhringer Coll.; GPIT-PV-63982 • 1 specimen; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 3 a; Korn 1991 Coll.; MB.C.31213 • 22 specimens; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 3 a; Weyer 1993–1994 Coll.; MB.C.31214.1–22 • 8 specimens; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 3b; Weyer 1993–1994 Coll.; MB.C.31215.1–8 • 7 specimens; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 3c1; Weyer 1993–1994 Coll.; MB.C.31216.1–7 • 1 specimen; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, railway cutting; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 3c2; Weyer 1993–1994 Coll.; MB.C.31217 • 1 specimen; Rhenish Mountains, Oberrödinghausen, road cutting; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 3b; Korn & Weyer 2000 Coll.; MB.C.31218 • 1 specimen; Rhenish Mountains, Hasselbachtal; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 49; Weyer 1993–1994 Coll.; MB.C.5236.1 • 1 specimen; Rhenish Mountains, Oese, old quarry; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 30; Weyer & Korn 2000 Coll.; MB.C.5258.2 • 1 specimen; Rhenish Mountains, Oese, old quarry; Hangenberg Limestone, bed 28; Weyer & Korn 2000 Coll.; MB.C.5260.4 • 1 specimen; Rhenish Mountains, Oese, old quarry; bed interval VI; Paproth Coll.; MB.C.5282.
Description
Holotype BGRB X5716 is a specimen with nearly 15 mm conch diameter and allows the examination of two whorls (Fig. 110). It is thinly discoidal and subevolute (ww/dm = 0.42; uw/dm = 0.45) with a weakly depressed whorl profile (ww/wh = 1.28). The venter possesses two shallow longitudinal grooves with a rounded keel rising between them. On the last volution there are about 24 sharp ribs; these ribs form sharp nodes around the umbilicus and become weaker towards the flank. In the area of the outer flank they bend slightly forward and form a low projection before they diminish. Faint growth lines follow the course of the ribs; they form a low ventrolateral projection and a deep, broadly rounded ventral sinus. The penultimate whorl possesses 24 ribs.
The smaller, well-preserved specimen MB.C.31214.1 has a conch diameter of 14.5 mm and is also thinly discoidal and subevolute (ww/dm = 0.39; uw/dm = 0.43). In the sculpture it closely resembles the holotype; it has 26 ribs on the last and 24 ribs on the penultimate whorl (Fig. 112A). The ventral grooves are slightly deeper than in the holotype.
The incomplete ontogeny preserved in the sectioned specimen GPIT-PV-63982 shows a whorl profile that is, between 4 and 7.5 mm conch diameter, depressed crescent-shaped with a ww/wh ratio being reduced from 1.70 to 1.50. A raised ventral keel is present at 9.8 mm dm.
Larger specimens (e.g., specimens GPIT-PV-63978 and GPIT-PV-63980) show that the whorl profile becomes circular at 27 mm dm (Fig. 111A–B).
The growth trajectories are essentially consistent with those from the other representatives of the subfamily. Almost all trajectories are close to monophasic in the interval between 4 and 27 mm conch diameter with only minor changes of the conch ratios (Fig. 112C–E).
Remarks
Pseudarietites westfalicus differs from the very similar P. silesiacus in the lower number of ribs (25 in P. westfalicus but 30 in P. silesiacus). Pseudarietites westfalicus can be separated from P. subtilis by the much wider umbilicus (uw/dm = 0.45 in P. westfalicus at 20 mm dm but about 0.35 in P. subtilis).
description: Published as part of Korn, Dieter & Weyer, Dieter, 2023, The ammonoids from the Gattendorfia Limestone of Oberrödinghausen (Early Carboniferous; Rhenish Mountains, Germany), pp. 1-230 in European Journal of Taxonomy 882 on pages 180-183, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.882.2177, http://zenodo.org/record/8177581