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Scaphitidae ✝

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Hoploscaphites nicolletii

South Dakota, USA

Hoploscaphites nicolletii

South Dakota, USA

Hoploscaphites nicolletii

South Dakota, USA

Description

Scaphitidae is a family of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). There is a possible fossil record of them being the last ammonites with a fossil dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Turkmenistan.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphitidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3245935	https://www.gbif.org/species/3245935
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	95940	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=95940

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Scaphitidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Scaphitidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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	Ancyloceratina	Wiedmann 1966
superfamily	Scaphitoidea
family	Scaphitidae	Gill 1871

Scientific Name

Scaphitidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Scaphitidae	family	belongs to Scaphitaceae	stated with evidence	Brunnschweiler, 1966
Scaphitidae	family	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated without evidence	Thomel, 1988
Scaphitidae	family	belongs to Scaphitaceae	stated with evidence	Kennedy and Cobban, 1990
Scaphitidae	family	belongs to Scaphitaceae	stated without evidence	Landman and Waage, 1993
Scaphitidae	family	belongs to Scaphitaceae	stated with evidence	Kennedy, 1994
Scaphitidae	family	belongs to Scaphitaceae	stated without evidence	Kennedy et al., 1997
Scaphitidae	family	belongs to Scaphitaceae	stated with evidence	Arkadiev et al., 2000

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

125

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

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)

G. Thomel. 1988. Les ammonites néocrétacées des chaînes subalpines méridionales. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France (153):1-79

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphitidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Otoscaphitinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		112	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Scaphitinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		821	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Acanthoscaphites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Clioscaphites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		33	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Discoscaphites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		202	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Eoscaphites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hoploscaphites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		259	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Indoscaphites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Jeletzkytes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		110	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Otoscaphites genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ponteixites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Rhaeboceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		67	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Scaphites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		369	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Trachyscaphites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		33	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Worthoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		31	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Yezoites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		112	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1871	Scaphitidae Gill
1966	Scaphitidae Brunnschweiler p. 54
1984	Scaphitidae Kennedy p. 146
1988	Scaphitidae Thomel p. 25
1990	Scaphitidae Henderson p. 127
1990	Scaphitidae Kennedy and Cobban p. 417
1991	Scaphitidae Kennedy and Christensen p. 222
1992	Scaphitidae Cobban and Kennedy p. 84
1992	Scaphitidae Kennedy et al. p. 275
1993	Scaphitidae Kennedy p. 112
1993	Scaphitidae Kennedy and Christennsen p. 155
1993	Scaphitidae Landman and Waage p. 73
1993	Scaphitidae Ward and Kennedy p. 53

Year	Name and Author
1994	Scaphitidae Kennedy p. 234
1995	Scaphitidae Kennedy p. 432
1997	Scaphitidae Kennedy et al. p. 14
2000	Scaphitidae Arkadiev et al. p. 120
2003	Scaphitidae Landman and Cobban p. 23
2004	Scaphitidae Kennedy and Jolkicev p. 378
2005	Scaphitidae Kennedy p. 417
2007	Scaphitidae Kennedy and Latil p. 474
2008	Scaphitidae Kennedy et al. p. 47
2012	Scaphitidae Machalski et al. p. 731
2015	Scaphitidae Ifrim et al. p. 251
2015	Scaphitidae Kennedy and Gale p. 520
2016	Scaphitidae Niebuhr et al. p. 218

References

Thomel G. (1988) Les ammonites néocrétacées des chaînes subalpines méridionales, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 153, 1-79

Brunnschweiler R. O. (1966) Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia I: the heteromorph Lytoceratina, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 58, 1-58

Kennedy W. J. (1984) Systematic palaeontology and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite faunas of the French Coniacian, Special Papers in Palaeontology 31, 1-160

Henderson R. A. (1990) Late Albian ammonites from the Northern Territory, Australia, Alcheringa 14, 109-148

Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A. (1990) Cenomanian micromorphic ammonites from the western interior of the USA, Palaeontology 33, 379-422

Kennedy W. J., Christensen W. K. (1991) Coniacian and Santonian ammonites from Bornholm, Denmark, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 38, 203-226

Cobban W. A., Kennedy W. J. (1992) Campanian Trachyscaphites spiniger ammonite fauna in north-east Texas, Palaeontology 35 1, 63-93

Kennedy W. J., Hansotte M., et al (1992) Ammonites and nannofossils from the Campanian of Nalzen (Ariége, France), Geobios 25 2, 263-278

Kennedy W. J. (1993) Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from the Mons Basin and adajcent areas (Belgium), Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 63, 99-131

Kennedy W. J., Christennsen W. K. (1993) Santonian ammonites from the Köpingsberg-1 borehole, Sweden, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Denmark 40, 149-156

Landman N. H., Waage K. M. (1993) Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 215, 1-257

Ward P. D., Kennedy W. J. (1993) Maastrichtian ammonites from the Biscay region (France, Spain), The Paleontological Society Memoir 34, 1-58

Kennedy W. J. (1994) Cenomanian ammonites from Cassis, Bouches-du-Rhone, France, Palaeopelagos Special Publication 1, 209-254

Kennedy W. J. (1995) Systematic palaeontology, in Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées), Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine 19, 377-499

Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A., et al (1997) New ammonoid records from the Merchantville Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Maryland and New Jersey, American Museum Novitates 3193, 1-17

Arkadiev V. V., Atabekian A. A., et al (2000) Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 255, 85-128

Landman N. H., Cobban W. A. (2003) Ammonites from the upper part of the Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formation of Colorado, American Museum Novitates 3388, 1-45

Kennedy W. J., Jolkicev N. (2004) Middle Cenomanian ammonites from the type section of the Sanandinovo Formation of northern Bulgaria, Acta Geologica Polonica 54, 369-380

Kennedy W. J. (2005) Systematic palaeontology, in Upper Albian and Lower Cenomanian ammonites from the Main Street Limestone, Grayson Marl and Del Rio Clay in northeast Texas, Cretaceous Research 26, 349-428

Kennedy W. J., Latil J. L. (2007) The Upper Albian ammonite succession in the Montlaux section, Hautes-Alpes, France, Acta Geologica Polonica 57 4, 453-478

Kennedy W. J., Jagt J. W. M., et al (2008) The late Late Albian (Mortoniceras fallax Zone) cephalopod fauna from the Bracquegnies formation at Strépy-Thieu (Hainaut, southern Belgium), Geologica Belgica 11, 35-69

Machalski M., Jagt J. W. M., et al (2012) Terminal Maastrichtian ammonites from Turkmenistan, central Asia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57, 729-735

Ifrim C., Stinnesbeck W., et al (2015) Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) cephalopods from the Parras Shale near Saucedas, Coahuila, Mexico, Journal of South American Earth Sciences 64, 229-257

Kennedy W. J., Gale A. S. (2015) Late Turonian ammonites from Haute-Normandie, France, Acta Geologica Polonica 65, 507-524

Niebuhr B., Taherpour Khalil Abad M., et al (2016) First record of late Campanian ammonites from the Abderaz Formation of the Koppeh Dagh, northeastern Iran, Cretaceous Research 58, 202-222

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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