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Mortoniceras ✝

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Mortoniceras drakei

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Mortoniceras equidistans

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Mortoniceras drakei

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Mortoniceras equidistans

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Mortoniceras drakei

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Mortoniceras equidistans

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Description

Mortoniceras is an ammonoid genus belonging to the superfamily Acanthocerataceae, named by Meek in 1876, based on Ammonites vespertinu, named by Morton in 1834.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4626809	https://www.gbif.org/species/4626809
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	15216	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15216

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Brancoceratidae : Mortoniceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Brancoceratidae : Mortoniceras

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	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Acanthoceratoidea
family	Brancoceratidae	Spath 1934
subfamily	Mortoniceratinae	Douvillé 1912
genus	Mortoniceras	Meek 1876

Scientific Name

Mortoniceras Meek, 1876

Name Published In

Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 9

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mortoniceras	genus	belongs to Mortoniceratinae	stated with evidence	Förster, 1975
Mortoniceras	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Mortoniceras	genus	belongs to Mortoniceratinae	stated with evidence	Kennedy, 2005

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)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mortoniceras (Angolaites) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		9	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mortoniceras (Boeseites) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		7	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		34	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		75	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mortoniceras (Rusoceras) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		58	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) geometricum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Mortoniceras aequatorealis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras albense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras arietiforme species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras aroeiria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras australis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras barbouri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras bassleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras beloventer species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras bipunctatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras bispinosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras bondanti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras cantabrigense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras condamyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras conlini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras cunningtoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras delawarense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras densecostatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras devonense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras downii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras drakei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras equidistans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mortoniceras evolutum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras exile species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras fallax species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras ferecostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras fissicostatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras furberi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras gainesana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mortoniceras geometricum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras gregoryi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras howelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras inflatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras kentensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras lastroensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras leonense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mortoniceras lowrii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras machueli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras margaritata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras maroimensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras marrecasia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras mokarahaense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras monchicourti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras montraynaudensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras multicostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras nanum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras nothum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras omeraense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras ornatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras pachys species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras pecosensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras perarmata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras perinflatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras potternense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras prerostratum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras pricei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras proteus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras recticostatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras romeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras rostratum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras scotti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras sergipensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras shumardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras spinosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras stoliczkai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras subsimplex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras tectoria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras texanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras vermillonense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras vespertinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras vicina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras vokesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mortoniceras wintoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pervinquieria aroeiria ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria bassleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria evolutum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pervinquieria ferecostata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria furberi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria gainesana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pervinquieria lastroensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria margaritata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pervinquieria maroimensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria marrecasia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria montraynaudensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria sergipensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria stoliczkai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria sylvana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pervinquieria tectoria ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pervinquieria vicina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pervinquieria vokesi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Mortonoceras Clessin, 1878	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Brancoceratidae : *Mortonoceras*
Mortonicers Yabe & Shimizu, 1923	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Brancoceratidae : *Mortonicers*
Pagoceras van Hoepen, 1951	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Brancoceratidae : *Pagoceras*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1876	Mortoniceras Meek
1910	Pervinquieria Böhm p. 152
1920	Inflaticeras Stieler
1926	Inflaticeras Whitehouse p. 224
1932	Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) Spath
1942	Pervinquieria Haas p. 66
1942	Inflaticeras Haas p. 72
1951	Pagoceras van Hoepen
1975	Mortoniceras Förster p. 228
1982	Mortoniceras Renz p. 32

Year	Name and Author
1998	Mortoniceras Kennedy et al. p. 15
2000	Mortoniceras Arkadiev et al. p. 113
2002	Mortoniceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Pervinquieria Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Mortoniceras Kennedy p. 365
2007	Mortoniceras Kennedy and Latil p. 463
2007	Mortoniceras Mosavinia et al. p. 85
2008	Mortoniceras Kennedy et al. p. 42
2016	Mortoniceras Sharifi et al. p. 597
2018	Mortoniceras El Qot p. 160

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

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

Spath L. F. (1932) Ammonoidea of the Gault. Part IX, Paleontographical Society, London 84 384 - 1930, 379-410

Haas O. (1942) The Vernay Collection of Cretaceous (Albian) ammonites from Angola, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 81 1, 1-224

Förster R. (1975) Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman, Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B 12, 3-324

Renz O. (1982) , The Cretaceous ammonites of Venezuela, 1-132

Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A., et al (1998) Ammonites from the Weno Limestone (Albian) in Northeast Texas, American Museum Novitates 3236, 1-46

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

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

Mosavinia A., Wilmsen M., et al (2007) Mortoniceratinae (Ammonitina) from the upper Albian (Cretaceous) of the Atamir Formation, Koppeh Dagh mountains, NE Iran, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 246, 83-95

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

Sharifi J., Raisossadat S. N., et al (2016) Albian and Cenomanian ammonites of the eastern margin of the Lut block (East Iran), Carnets de Géologie 16, 591-613

El Qot G. M. (2018) Aptian-early Cenomanian ammonites from north Sinai, Egypt: systematic paleontology and biostratigraphy, Cretaceous Research 85, 142-171

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 9 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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