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Douvilleiceras ✝

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Douvilleiceras orbignyi

Ambato-Boeni, Boeny, Madagascar

Douvilleiceras orbignyi

Ambato-Boeni, Boeny, Madagascar

Douvilleiceras orbignyi

Ambato-Boeni, Boeny, Madagascar

Description

Douvilleiceras is a genus of ammonites from the Middle to Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found worldwide, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4627178	https://www.gbif.org/species/4627178
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	14797	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14797

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Douvilleiceratidae : Douvilleiceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Douvilleiceratidae : Douvilleiceras

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	Douvilleiceratoidea
family	Douvilleiceratidae	Parona and Bonarelli 1897
subfamily	Douvilleiceratinae	Parona and Bonarelli 1987
genus	Douvilleiceras	de Grossouvre 1893

Scientific Name

Douvilleiceras de Grossouvre, 1893

Name Published In

Mém. Carte géol. France, Rech. Craie sup. (2): 26, 107

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Douvilleiceras	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Anderson, 1902
Douvilleiceras	genus	belongs to Douvilleiceratidae	stated with evidence	Benavides-Caceres, 1956
Douvilleiceras	genus	belongs to Douvilleiceratinae	stated with evidence	Wright et al., 1996
Douvilleiceras	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Douvilleiceras	genus	belongs to Douvilleiceratinae	stated with evidence	Futakami and Haggart, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

129 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

93.5 - 89.3 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/Douvilleiceras

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Douvilleiceras aequicostatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras benonae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras coronatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras mamillare ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Douvilleiceras mamillaris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras mammillatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		40	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Douvilleiceras meyendorffi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Douvilleiceras monile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Douvilleiceras muralense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Douvilleiceras nazasense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras offarcinatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Douvilleiceras orbignyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Douvilleiceras paucinodum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras rex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras scabrosum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Douvilleiceras spathi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras spiniferum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Douvilleiceras sub-buxtorfi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Douvilleiceras wilfridi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1894	Douvilleiceras Grossouvre p. 26
1902	Douvilliceras Anderson p. 106
1949	Douvilleiceras Stoyanow p. 130
1956	Douvilleiceras Benavides-Caceres p. 442
1996	Douvilleiceras Wright et al. p. 269
2002	Douvilleiceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2016	Douvilleiceras Futakami and Haggart p. 45
2018	Douvilleiceras Ovando-Figueroa et al. p. 120

References

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

Anderson F. M. (1902) Cretaceous Deposits of the Pacific Coast, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2 1, 1-155

Stoyanow A. (1949) Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy in southeastern Arizona, Geological Society of America Memoir 38, 1-156

Benavides-Caceres V.E. (1956) Cretaceous system in northern Peru, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108 4, 1-493

Wright C. W., Calloman J. H., et al (1996) Cretaceous Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology L 4, 1-362

Futakami M., Haggart J. W. (2016) Early Albian (Early Cretaceous) douvilleiceratid ammonites from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada, Journal of Paleontology 90, 43-58

Ovando-Figueroa J. R., Moreno-Bedmar J. A., et al (2018) Ammonite taxonomy and biostratigraphy for the upper Aptian-lower Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Cerro Chino, Chihuahua State, northeast Mexico, Cretaceous Research 82, 109-137

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

Mém. Carte Géol. France, Rech. Craie sup., pt. 2, 26 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 422 Determination under the Plenary Powers of the species to which the specific name mammillatus Schlotheim, 1813, as published in the combination ammonites Mammillatus shall apply and designation under the same Powers of the foregoing species to be the type species of the genus Douvilleiceras de Grossouvre, 1893 (class Cephalopoda, order Ammonoidea).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14(6), 181-196 (1956) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

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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