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Phylloceratida ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	94177	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=94177

Rank

order (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Phylloceratida

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	Phylloceratida	(Zittel 1884)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Phylloceratida	suborder	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Arkell et al., 1957
Phylloceratida	suborder	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated without evidence	Wright and Kennedy, 1984
Phylloceratida	suborder	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Ward and Kennedy, 1993
Phylloceratida	suborder	belongs to Ammonitida	stated with evidence	Arkadiev et al., 2000
Phylloceratida	suborder	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated without evidence	Alsen, 2006
Phylloceratida	order	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated with evidence	Hoffmann, 2010
Phylloceratida	suborder	belongs to Ammonoidea	stated without evidence	Lukeneder and Lukeneder, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

320

First Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Phylloceratida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Phylloceratida)

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	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Phylloceratoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)		3,894	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ussuritoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)		204	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1884	Phylloceratitida Zittel
1957	Phylloceratina Arkell et al. p. 9
1975	Phylloceratina Förster p. 139
1981	Phylloceratitida Tozer
1984	Phylloceratina Wright and Kennedy p. 38
1993	Phylloceratina Ward and Kennedy p. 15
1994	Phylloceratina Tozer p. 268
1995	Phylloceratina Futakami et al. p. 81
1995	Phylloceratina Kennedy p. 388
1996	Phylloceratina Wright et al. p. 1
1999	Phylloceratina Kennedy and Summesberger p. 24
2000	Phylloceratina Arkadiev et al. p. 96
2006	Phylloceratina Alsen p. 122
2008	Phylloceratitida Brayard and Bucher
2010	Phylloceratida Hoffmann p. 11
2012	Phylloceratida Meister et al. p. 426
2018	Phylloceratina Lukeneder and Lukeneder p. 98
1884	Phylloceratitida Zittel
1952	Phylloceratina Wright

Year	Name and Author
1957	Phylloceratina Arkell et al. p. 9
1975	Phylloceratina Förster p. 139
1975	Phylloceratida Murphy p. 14
1981	Phylloceratitida Tozer
1984	Phylloceratina Wright and Kennedy p. 38
1993	Phylloceratina Ward and Kennedy p. 15
1994	Phylloceratina Tozer p. 268
1995	Phylloceratina Futakami et al. p. 81
1995	Phylloceratina Kennedy p. 388
1996	Phylloceratina Wright et al. p. 1
1999	Phylloceratina Kennedy and Summesberger p. 24
2000	Phylloceratina Arkadiev et al. p. 96
2003	Phylloceratida Meister and Friebe
2006	Phylloceratina Alsen p. 122
2008	Phylloceratitida Brayard and Bucher
2010	Phylloceratida Hoffmann p. 11
2012	Phylloceratida Meister et al. p. 426
2018	Phylloceratina Lukeneder and Lukeneder p. 98

References

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

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

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

Wright C. W., Kennedy W. J. (1984) The Ammonoidea of the Lower Chalk, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, 1-126

Ward P. D., Kennedy W. J. (1993) Maastrichtian ammonites from the Biscay region (France, Spain), The Paleontological Society Memoir 34, 1-58

Tozer E. T. (1994) Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467, 1-663

Futakami M., Matsukawa M., et al (1995) Barremian ammonites from the Longzhaogou Group in eastern Heilongjiang, northeast China, Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 101, 79-85

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

Kennedy W. J., Summesberger H. (1999) New Late Campanian ammonites from the Gschliefgraben near Gmuden (Ultrahelvetic, Austria), Beiträge zur Paläontologie 24, 23-39

Arkadiev V. V., Atabekian A. A., et al (2000) Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 255, 85-128

Alsen P. (2006) The Early Cretaceous (Late Ryazanian-Early Hauterivian) ammonite fauna of North-East Greenland: taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and biogeography, Fossils and Strata 53, 1-229

Brayard A., Bucher H. (2008) Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China): taxonomy and biochronology, Fossils and Strata 55, 1-179

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

Meister C., Dommergues J. L., et al (2012) Ammonites from the Apoderoceras beds (Early Pliensbachian) in São Pedro de Muel (Lusitanian basin, Portugal), Bulletin of Geosciences 87, 407-430

Lukeneder P., Lukeneder A. (2018) Sinemurian biostratigraphy of the Tannscharten section near Reichraming (Lower Jurassic, Schneeberg Syncline, Northern Calcareous Alps), Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 111 1, 092-110 doi:10.17738/ajes.2018.0007

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