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Ammonitida ✝

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Parkinsonia pachypleura

Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Mortoniceras equidistans

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Eopachydiscus marcianus

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Parkinsonia pachypleura

Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Mortoniceras equidistans

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Eopachydiscus marcianus

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Parkinsonia pachypleura

Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Mortoniceras equidistans

Spring Creek, Cooke County, Texas, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	84931	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=84931

Rank

order (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida

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

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Hyatt, 1889
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated without evidence	Arkell et al., 1957
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Summesberger, 1980
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated without evidence	Kennedy et al., 1981
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Henderson, 1990
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated without evidence	Kennedy and Klinger, 1990
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Medina and Riccardi, 2005
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated without evidence	Shevyrev, 2006
Ammonitida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Howarth, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

7,071

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 237 Ma
Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 56.0 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)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ammonitina ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)	36,985	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ancyloceratina ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)	6,234	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ancylocerina ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Cardiocerina ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Haplocerina ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Psilocerina ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Stephanocerina ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Sinuiceratidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Benetticeras ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	161 Ma Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Dudresnayiceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Steueroceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1789	Ammonites Bruguière
1852	Scaphites (Ammonites) Owen p. 581
1887	Ammonites folleatus White p. 220 figs. pl. 23, figs. 1, 2
1889	Ammonitida Hyatt
1936	Acanthoceras folleatum Maury p. 246
1957	Ammonitida Arkell et al. p. 9
1963	Discitoceras bowdeni Rilett
1974	Paraceltites bowdeni Teichert and Rilett p. 5
1980	Ammonitida Summesberger p. 278
1981	Ammonitida Kennedy et al. p. 229
1984	Ammonitida Klinger and Kennedy p. 130
1989	Ammonitida Klinger and Kennedy
1990	Ammonitida Henderson p. 111

Year	Name and Author
1990	Ammonitida Kennedy and Klinger p. 233
1992	Ammonitida Kennedy et al. p. 268
1997	Ammonitida Kennedy et al. p. 4
1998	Ammonitida Kennedy et al. p. 7
2002	Paraceltites bowdeni Leonova p. 99
2005	Ammonitida Medina and Riccardi p. 256
2006	Ammonitida Shevyrev
2007	Ammonitida Landman et al.
2007	Ammonitida Pavia p. 220
2013	Ammonitida Howarth p. 2
2016	Ammonitida Edmunds et al. p. 150
2016	Ammonitida Lehmann et al. p. 440
2016	Ammonitida Wild and Stilwell p. 975

References

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

Bruguière J.-G. Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Tome VIeme, Librairie Panckoucke

Maury C. J. (1936) , Monographias do Servico Geologico E Mineralogico 11, 1-283

Arkell W. J., Furnish W. M., et al (1957) Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology K 3, 1-490

Teichert C., Rilett M. (1974) Revision of Permian Ecca Series cephalopods, Natal, South Africa, University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 68, 1-9

Summesberger H. (1980) Neue Ammoniten aus der Sandkalkbank der Hochmoosschichten (Obersanton; Gosau, Österreich), Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 83, 275-283

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

Klinger H. C., Kennedy W. J. (1984) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Peroniceratinae Hyatt, 1900, Annals of the South African Museum 92 3, 1-294

Klinger H. C., Kennedy W. J. (1989) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Placenticeratidae Hyatt, 1900; with comments on the systematic position of the genus Hypengonoceras Spath, 1924, Annals of the South African Museum 98 9, 241-408

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

Kennedy W. J., Klinger H. C. (1990) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Hatchericeras Stanton, 1901 (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea) from the Barremian of Zululand, Annals of the South African Museum 99 8, 231-243

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., Cobban W. A., et al (1997) Maastrichtian ammonites from the Severn Formation of Maryland, American Museum Novitates 3210, 1-30

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

Leonova T. B. (2002) Permian ammonoids: classification and phylogeny, Paleontological Journal 36 Suppl 1, 1-114

Medina F. A., Riccardi A.C. (2005) Desmoceratidae, Silesitidae and Kossmaticeratidae (Ammonitida) from the Upper Aptian-Albian of Patagonia (Argentina), Revue de Paleobiologie, Geneve 24 1, 251-286

Shevyrev A. A. (2006) The cephalopod macrosystem: A historical review, the present state of knowledge, and unsolved problems: 3. Classification of Bactritoidea and Ammonoidea, Paleontological Journal 40 2, 150-161

Landman N. H., Johnson R. O., et al (2007) Cephalopods from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary interval on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. with a description of the highest ammonite zones in North America. Part III. Manasquan River Basin, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 303, 1-122

Pavia G. (2007) Lissoceras monachum (Gemmellaro), a ghost Ammonitida of the Tethyan Bathonian, Bollettino della Societá Paleontologica Italiana 45 2-3, 217-226

Howarth M. K. (2013) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea, Treatise Online 57, 1-139

Edmunds M., Whicher J., et al (2016) A systematic account of the ammonite faunas of the Obtusum Zone (Sinemurian Stage, Lower Jurassic) from Marston Magna, Somerset, UK, Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 127, 146-171

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

Wild T. J., Stilwell J. D. (2016) First Cretaceous (Albian) invertebrate fossil assemblage from Batavia Knoll, Perth Abyssal Plain, eastern Indian Ocean: taxonomy and paleoecological significance, Journal of Paleontology 90, 959-980

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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