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Pseudotirolites ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3246013	https://www.gbif.org/species/3246013
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	14371	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14371

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Pseudotirolitidae : Pseudotirolites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ceratitida : Pseudotirolitidae : Pseudotirolites

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	Ceratitida	Hyatt 1884
suborder	Paraceltitina	Shevyrev 1968
superfamily	Xenodiscoidea	Frech 1902
family	Pseudotirolitidae	Zhao 1965
genus	Pseudotirolites	Sun 1947

Scientific Name

Pseudotirolites Sun, 1947

Name Published In

Contr. Geol. Inst. Nat. Univ. Peking, 23

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudotirolites	genus	belongs to Ceratitida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Pseudotirolites	genus	belongs to Pseudotirolitidae	stated with evidence	Korn, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

260 - 254 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ceratitida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ceratitida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ceratitida)

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
Pseudotirolites acuticostatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites acutus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites anshunensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites asiaticus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	19	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites disconnectus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites dislobatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites guixianensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites laibinensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	19	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites orientalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites qianjiangensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites qinglongensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites radiaplicatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites regularis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudotirolites varians ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1933	Pseudotirolites Sun
2002	Pseudotirolites Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Pseudotirolites Korn

References

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

Korn D. (2006) Paleozoic ammonoid classification

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

Contr. Geol. Inst. Nat. Univ. Peking, 23 - 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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