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Acanthoceratoidea ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)111267https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=111267
Ranksuperfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Acanthoceratoidea
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMolluscaLinnaeus 1758
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea
orderAmmonitidaHyatt 1889
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated with evidenceWright, 1952
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ancyloceratinastated with evidenceCooper, 1978
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated with evidenceSummesberger, 1979
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonoideastated without evidenceRiccardi, 1981
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated with evidenceKennedy, 1984
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonoideastated without evidenceKlinger and Kennedy, 1984
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated with evidenceCobban, 1988
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonoideastated without evidenceKennedy and Simmons, 1991
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated with evidenceSummesberger, 1992
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated without evidenceKennedy et al., 1997
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated with evidenceKennedy et al., 1998
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Lytoceratinastated with evidenceArkadiev et al., 2000
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated without evidenceGebhardt, 2001
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated with evidenceLandman and Cobban, 2003
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonoideastated without evidenceBarroso-Barcenilla, 2007
Acanthoceratoideasuperfamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated with evidenceAly et al., 2008
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1,109
First Recorded Appearance125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance70.6 - 56.0 Ma
Phanerozoic
Motilityfast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)
Visionwell-developed (based on Cephalopoda)
Dietcarnivore (based on Ammonoidea)
Taphonomyaragonite (based on Ammonoidea)
Primary Reference (PBDB)W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1990. Rhamphidoceras saxatilis n. gen. and sp., a micromorph ammonite from the lower Turonian of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Paleontology 64(4):666-668

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Acanthoceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1,551125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
89.3 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Brancoceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
576113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cleoniceratidae
family
listed (PBDB)269113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
99.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Coilopoceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
154113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Collignoniceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
75999.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Flickiidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
41105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
99.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Forbesiceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
53101 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
99.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Leymeriellidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
105125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
99.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lyelliceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
333113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
99.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mojsisovicsiidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
315113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
89.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Peroniceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
Prolyelliceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
28122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pseudotissotidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2799.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pseudotissotiidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
19399.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
89.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sphenodiscidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
32193.9 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tissotiidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
7793.9 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
86.3 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Vascoceratidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
36999.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
85.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1894Acanthocerataceae de Grossouvre
1952Acanthocerataceae Wright
1975Acanthocerataceae Förster p. 217
1978Acanthocerataceae Cooper p. 83
1978Acanthocerataceae Wiedmann p. 668
1979Acanthocerataceae Summesberger p. 159
1981Acanthoceratacea Riccardi p. 5
1984Acanthocerataceae Kennedy p. 45
1984Acanthocerataceae Klinger and Kennedy p. 130
1988Acanthocerataceae Cobban p. 2
1988Acanthocerataceae Kennedy and Cobban p. 24
1990Acanthoceratoidea Henderson p. 114
1990Acanthocerataceae Kennedy and Cobban p. 390
1991Acanthocerataceae Kennedy and Christensen p. 210
1991Acanthocerataceae Kennedy and Simmons p. 136
1992Acanthocerataceae Summesberger p. 110
1995Acanthocerataceae Kennedy p. 247
1996Acanthocerataceae Kennedy et al. p. 313
1996Acanthocerataceae Kennedy et al. p. 3
1996Acanthocerataceae Kennedy et al. p. 6
1996Acanthocerataceae Wright et al. p. 133
1997Acanthocerataceae Kennedy et al. p. 4
1998Acanthocerataceae Kennedy et al. p. 12
1999Acanthocerataceae Kennedy p. 653
2000Acanthocerataceae Arkadiev et al. p. 113
2001Acanthocerataceae Gebhardt p. 206
YearName and Author
2003Acanthocerataceae Landman and Cobban p. 13
2004Acanthocerataceae Kennedy and Jolkicev p. 373
2005Acanthoceratoidea Gale et al. p. 172
2005Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy p. 363
2007Acanthoceratoidea Barroso-Barcenilla p. 130
2007Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy et al. p. 524
2007Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy and Latil p. 463
2007Acanthoceratoidea Mosavinia et al. p. 85
2008Acanthoceratoidea Aly et al. p. 47
2008Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy et al. p. 153
2008Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy et al. p. 41
2008Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy et al. p. 130
2011Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy and Klinger p. 70
2012Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy and Klinger p. 2
2013Acanthoceratoidea Ahmad et al. p. 25
2013Acanthoceratoidea Lehmann et al. p. 205
2014Acanthoceratoidea Mosavinia et al. p. 84
2015Acanthocerataceae Ahmad et al. p. 247
2015Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy and Gale p. 515
2016Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy and Gale p. 270
2016Acanthoceratoidea Lehmann et al. p. 441
2016Acanthoceratoidea Sharifi et al. p. 597
2017Acanthoceratoidea Benzaggagh et al. p. 113
2018Acanthoceratoidea El Qot p. 158
2018Acanthoceratoidea Kennedy and Morris p. 91
2018Acanthoceratoidea Tajika et al. p. 70

References

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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
Wiedmann J. (1978) Eine paläontologisch interessante Ammonitenfaunula aus der alpinen Gosau (Santon, Becken von Gosau, Oberösterreich), Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 71, 663-675
Summesberger H. (1979) Eine obersantone Ammonitenfauna aus dem Becken von Gosau (Oberösterreich), Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 82, 109-176
Riccardi A. C. (1981) An Upper Cretaceous ammonite and inoceramids from the Honna Formation, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Geological Survey of Canada Current Research, Part C 81 1C, 1-8
Kennedy W. J. (1984) Systematic palaeontology and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite faunas of the French Coniacian, Special Papers in Palaeontology 31, 1-160
Klinger H. C., Kennedy W. J. (1984) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Peroniceratinae Hyatt, 1900, Annals of the South African Museum 92 3, 1-294
Cobban W. A. (1988) Tarrantoceras Stephenson and related ammonoid genera from Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks in Texas and the western interior of the United States, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1473, 1-30
Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A. (1988) The Late Cretaceous ammonite Romaniceras Spath, 1923, in New Mexico, New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114, 23-34
Henderson R. A. (1990) Late Albian ammonites from the Northern Territory, Australia, Alcheringa 14, 109-148
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Summesberger H. (1992) Ammoniten aus dem Turon (Oberkreide) der Nördlichen Kalkalpen (Österreich), Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 94, 103-133
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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
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