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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4626272	https://www.gbif.org/species/4626272
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	15610	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15610

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Baculitidae : Sciponoceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Baculitidae : Sciponoceras

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	Turrilitoidea
family	Baculitidae	Gill 1871
genus	Sciponoceras	Hyatt 1894

Scientific Name

Sciponoceras Hyatt, 1894

Name Published In

Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 32

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sciponoceras	genus	belongs to Baculitidae	stated with evidence	Matsumoto, 1959
Sciponoceras	genus	belongs to Baculitinae	stated with evidence	Förster, 1975
Sciponoceras	genus	belongs to Baculitidae	stated with evidence	Wright, 1979
Sciponoceras	genus	belongs to Baculitidae	stated without evidence	Henderson, 1990
Sciponoceras	genus	belongs to Baculitidae	stated with evidence	Summesberger, 1992
Sciponoceras	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Sciponoceras	genus	belongs to Baculitidae	stated with evidence	Kennedy, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

89.3 - 85.8 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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Sciponoceras antanimangaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sciponoceras baculoide ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	15	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sciponoceras bohemicum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	20	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sciponoceras cucullatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sciponoceras gracile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	27	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sciponoceras roto ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Scipionoceras Hyatt, 1900	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Baculitidae : *Scipionoceras*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1876	Cyrtochilus Meek
1894	Sciponoceras Hyatt
1959	Sciponoceras Matsumoto p. 99
1975	Sciponoceras Förster p. 166
1978	Sciponoceras Cooper p. 70
1979	Sciponoceras Wright p. 285
1979	Sciponoceras Young p. 23
1987	Sciponoceras Kennedy et al. p. 63
1990	Sciponoceras Henderson p. 130

Year	Name and Author
1992	Sciponoceras Summesberger p. 123
1994	Sciponoceras Kennedy p. 234
2002	Cyrtochilus Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Sciponoceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Sciponoceras Kennedy p. 408
2013	Sciponoceras Kennedy p. 650
2015	Sciponoceras Kennedy and Gale p. 519
2018	Sciponoceras Kennedy and Morris p. 99

References

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

Matsumoto T. (1959) Upper Cretaceous Ammonites of California. Part 1, Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 8 4, 1-171

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

Cooper M. R. (1978) Uppermost Cenomanian-basal Turonian ammonites from Salinas, Angola, Annals of the South African Museum 75 5, 1-152

Wright C. W. (1979) The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian), Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 31, 281-332

Young K. (1979) Lower Cenomanian and Late Albian (Cretaceous) ammonites, especially Lyelliceridae, or Texas and Mexico, Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 26, 1-99

Kennedy W. J., Wright C. W., et al (1987) Basal Turonian ammonites from west Texas, Palaeontology 30 1, 27-74

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

Summesberger H. (1992) Ammoniten aus dem Turon (Oberkreide) der Nördlichen Kalkalpen (Österreich), Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 94, 103-133

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

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. (2013) Systematic palaeontology, in Lower and Middle Cenomanian ammonites from the Morondava Basin, Madagascar, Acta Geologica Polonica 63, 625-655

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

Kennedy W. J., Morris N. J. (2018) An early Cenomanian ammonite fauna from near Lindi, Tanzania, Cretaceous Research 87, 84-101

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

Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 32 - 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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