| Source Data | |
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| Rank | genus (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Tetragonitidae : Tetragonites |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Tetragonites | subgenus | belongs to Lytoceras | second hand | Kossmat, 1895 | | Tetragonites | subgenus | belongs to Lytoceras | stated without evidence | Paulcke, 1907 | | Tetragonites | subgenus | belongs to Litoceras | stated with evidence | Böse, 1923 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitinae | stated with evidence | Henderson, 1970 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitidae | stated with evidence | Förster, 1975 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitinae | stated without evidence | Renz, 1982 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitidae | stated with evidence | Wright and Kennedy, 1984 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitinae | stated with evidence | Wright et al., 1996 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitidae | stated with evidence | Geyer et al., 1997 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Ammonoidea | second hand | Sepkoski, 2002 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitidae | stated with evidence | Kennedy and Jolkicev, 2004 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitinae | stated with evidence | Kennedy et al., 2007 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitidae | stated with evidence | Shigeta, 2016 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitinae | stated without evidence | El Qot, 2018 | | Tetragonites | genus | belongs to Tetragonitidae | stated with evidence | Gautam et al., 2019 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 24 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 125 - 122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Motility | fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea) |
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| Vision | well-developed (based on Cephalopoda) |
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| Diet | carnivore (based on Ammonoidea) |
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| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Ammonoidea) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560 |
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| Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560 |
| Paulcke W. J. (1907) Die Cephalopoden der oberen Kreide Südpatagoniens, Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg im Breisgau 15, 1-82 |
| Böse E. (1923) Algunas faunas cretácias de Zacatecas, Durango y Guerrero, Boletín del Instituto Géologica de México 42, 1-219 |
| Böse E. (1928) Cretaceous ammonites from Texas and northern Mexico, University of Texas Bulletin 2748 2 - 1927, 143-357 |
| Shimizu S (1935) The Upper Cretaceous cephalopods of Japan, Part I, J. Shanghai Sci. Inst.,sec. II 1 11, 159-226 |
| Henderson R. A. (1970) Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand, Special Papers in Palaeontology 6, 1-82 |
| 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 |
| Renz O. (1982) , The Cretaceous ammonites of Venezuela, 1-132 |
| Wright C. W., Kennedy W. J. (1984) The Ammonoidea of the Lower Chalk, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, 1-126 |
| Kennedy W. J. (1994) Cenomanian ammonites from Cassis, Bouches-du-Rhone, France, Palaeopelagos Special Publication 1, 209-254 |
| Kennedy W. J. (1995) Systematic palaeontology, in Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées), Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine 19, 377-499 |
| Wright C. W., Calloman J. H., et al (1996) Cretaceous Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology L 4, 1-362 |
| Geyer O. F., Kuss J., et al (1997) On some Albian ammonites from northeastern Sinai (Egypt), Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 71, 221-229 |
| Kennedy W. J., Jolkicev N. (2004) Middle Cenomanian ammonites from the type section of the Sanandinovo Formation of northern Bulgaria, Acta Geologica Polonica 54, 369-380 |
| 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., Crame J. A., et al (2007) Coniacian ammonites from James Ross Island, Antarctica, Cretaceous Research 28 509, 531 |
| Hoffmann R. (2010) New insights on the phylogeny of the Lytoceratoidea (Ammonitina) from the septal lobe and its functional interpretation, Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 29, 1-156 |
| Shigeta Y. (2016) Paleontological description, in Middle and late Campanian (Late Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Urakawa area, Hokkaido, northern Japan, Paleontological Research 20, 322-366 |
| El Qot G. M. (2018) Aptian-early Cenomanian ammonites from north Sinai, Egypt: systematic paleontology and biostratigraphy, Cretaceous Research 85, 142-171 |
| Gautam J. P., Pandey B., et al (2019) Late Albian ammonites from the Cauvery Basin, south India, Cretaceous Research 102, 12-29 |
Tetragonites ✝
