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Cleoniceratidae ✝

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Cleoniceras sp.

Mahajanga Province, Madagascar

Cleoniceras sp.

Mahajanga Province, Madagascar

Cleoniceras sp.

Mahajanga Province, Madagascar

Cleoniceras sp.

Mahajanga Province, Madagascar

Cleoniceras sp.

Mahajanga Province, Madagascar

Cleoniceras sp.

Mahajanga Province, Madagascar

Cleoniceras sp.

Mahajanga Province, Madagascar

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	132814	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=132814

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Cleoniceratidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea
order	Ammonitida	Hyatt 1889
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Acanthoceratoidea
family	Cleoniceratidae	Whitehouse 1926

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cleoniceratidae	family	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Whitehouse, 1926
Cleoniceratidae	subfamily	belongs to Hoplitidae	stated with evidence	Nagy, 1970
Cleoniceratidae	family	belongs to Desmoceratoidea	stated with evidence	Kennedy and Klinger, 2012
Cleoniceratidae	family	belongs to Acanthoceratoidea	stated with evidence	Lehmann et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 109 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ammonoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. W. Whitehouse. 1926. The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of Eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3):195-242

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arcthoplitinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	59	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Vnigriceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	23	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Brewericeras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	23	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cleogastroplites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cleoniceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	43	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Grycia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	43	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Leconteites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	35	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Lemuroceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	22	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Moretella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pachygrycia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Tetrahoplitoides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1926	Cleoniceratidae Whitehouse p. 206
1926	Cleoniceratinae Whitehouse p. 206
1970	Cleoniceratinae Nagy p. 31
1981	Cleoniceratinae Kennedy et al. p. 235
1988	Lemuroceratinae Owen
1995	Cleoniceratinae Alabushev p. 126
2012	Cleoniceratidae Kennedy and Klinger p. 56
2013	Cleoniceratidae Lehmann et al. p. 207
2016	Cleoniceratidae Lehmann et al. p. 452

References

Whitehouse F. W. (1926) The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of Eastern Australia, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8 3, 195-242

Nagy J. (1970) Ammonite faunas and stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous (Albian) rocks in southern Spitsbergen, Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 152, 1-58

Kennedy W. J., Hancock J. M., et al (1981) Albian and Cenomanian ammonites from the island of Bornholm, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 29, 203-244

Alabushev A. (1995) Ammonite faunas and biostratigraphy of the Albian to Middle Cenomanian (Cretaceous) in western Korjak-Kamchatka, NE Russia, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 196, 109-139

Kennedy W. J., Klinger H. C. (2012) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The desmoceratoid ammonite genera Moretella Collignon, 1963, Beudanticeras Hitzel, 1902, and Aioloceras Whitehouse, 1926, African Natural History 8, 55-75

Lehmann J., Owen H. G., et al (2013) A new ammonite fauna from NE Germany - evidence for an Early Albian cooling and the initial transgression in the Danish-Polish Trough, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 268, 199-235

Lehmann J., Hoffmann R., et al (2016) Cephalopoden aus unterkreidezeitlichen Geschieben der Region um Wolgast-Hohendorf, Vorpommern, Archiv für Geschiebekunde 7, 401-530

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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