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Description

Nybyoceras is an actinocerid genus assigned to the Armenoceratidae and similar to Armenoceras except for having a siphuncle close to the ventral side of the shell.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3246080	https://www.gbif.org/species/3246080
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	12689	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=12689

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Armenoceratidae : Nybyoceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Actinocerida : Armenoceratidae : Nybyoceras

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
order	Actinocerida	Teichert 1933
family	Armenoceratidae	Troedsson 1926
genus	Nybyoceras	Troeddson 1926

Scientific Name

Nybyoceras Troeddson, 1926

Name Published In

Jubil.-Exp. Nord om Grønland 1920-23, No. 3, I. Ceph.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nybyoceras	genus	belongs to Armenoceratidae	stated with evidence	Strand, 1934
Nybyoceras	genus	belongs to Actinocerida	stated with evidence	Flower, 1957
Nybyoceras	genus	belongs to Armenoceratidae	stated with evidence	Sweet, 1958
Nybyoceras	genus	belongs to Armenoceratidae	stated without evidence	Evans, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

479 - 466 Ma
Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

450 - 446 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician

Motility

actively mobile (based on Actinocerida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Actinocerida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Actinocerida)

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/Nybyoceras

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Nybyoceras balticum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Nybyoceras bekkeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Nybyoceras cryptum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	466 Ma Middle Ordovician	466 Ma Middle Ordovician
Nybyoceras foerstei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nybyoceras holmi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	464 Ma Middle Ordovician	464 Ma Middle Ordovician
Nybyoceras intermedium ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Nybyoceras montoyense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Nybyoceras troedssoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Nybyoceras ulrichi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1926	Nybyoceras Troedsson
1934	Nybyoceras Strand
1955	Nybyoceras Flower
1957	Nybyoceras Flower
1958	Nybyoceras Sweet
1964	Nybyoceras Teichert et al. p. 208
2005	Nybyoceras Evans

References

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

Strand T. (1934) The Upper Ordovician Cephalopods of the Oslo Area, Norsk geologiske Tidsskrift 14, 1-117

Flower R. H. (1955) New Chazyan orthocones, Journal of Paleontology 29 5, 806-830

Flower R. H. (1957) The Ordovician Development of the Actinoceratida, with notes on Actinoceroid Morphology and Ordovician Stratigraphy, State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 2, 1-59

Sweet W. C. (1958) The middle ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway 10. Nautiloid Cephalopods, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 38, 1-178

Teichert C., Kummel B., et al (1964) Cephalopoda - general features - Endoceratoidea - Actinoceratoidea - Nautiloidea - Bactritoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology K 3, 1-519

Evans D. H. (2005) The Lower and Middle Ordovician cephalopod faunas of England and Wales, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 623, 1-81

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

Jubil.-Exp. Nord om Grønland 1920-23, No. 3, I. Ceph. - 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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