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Clypeoceras ✝

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Clypeoceras is a genus of ammonites with an involute discoidal shell from the Lower Triassic.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4623153	https://www.gbif.org/species/4623153
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	14076	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14076

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Proptychitidae : Clypeoceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ceratitida : Proptychitidae : Clypeoceras

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
superfamily	Meekoceratoidea	Waagen 1895
family	Proptychitidae	Waagen 1895
genus	Clypeoceras	Eastman 1913

Scientific Name

Clypeoceras Eastman, 1913

Name Published In

in Eastman-Zittel, Text-Book Paleont., 2nd ed., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Clypeoceras	genus	belongs to Proptychitinae	stated with evidence	Tozer, 1981
Clypeoceras	genus	belongs to Ceratitida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Clypeoceras	genus	belongs to Clypeoceratidae	stated with evidence	Shigeta and Zakharov, 2009
Clypeoceras	genus	belongs to Proptychitidae	stated with evidence	Brühwiler and Bucher, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

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. P. Smith. 1913. Ammonoidea. In C. R. Eastman (ed.), Text-Book of Paleontology 1:617-677

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clypeoceras

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aspidites arenosus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Aspidites dentosus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Aspidites kingianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Aspidites magnumbilicatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Aspidites meridianus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Clypeoceras arenosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Clypeoceras dentosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Clypeoceras kingianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Clypeoceras magnumbilicatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Clypeoceras superbum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Clypeoceras timorense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Aspiditella Strand, 1929	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Proptychitidae : *Aspiditella*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1895	Aspidites Waagen p. 215
1913	Clypeoceras Smith p. 645
1981	Clypeoceras Tozer p. 89
2002	Clypeoceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2009	Clypeoceras Shigeta and Zakharov p. 110
2012	Clypeoceras Brühwiler and Bucher

References

Smith J. P. (1913) Ammonoidea, Text-Book of Paleontology 1, 617-677

Waagen W. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation, Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2 1, 1-323

Tozer E. T. (1981) Triassic Ammonoidea: Classification, evolution and relationship with Permian and Jurassic Forms, The Ammonoidea: The evolution classification, mode of life and geological usefulness of a major fossil group, 66-100

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

Shigeta Y., Zakharov Y. D. (2009) Systematic Paleontology: Cephalopods, The Lower Triassic System in the Abrek Bay area, south Primorye, Russia 38, 44-140

Brühwiler T., Bucher H. (2012) Systematic palaeontology, in Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Salt Range, Pakistan, Special Papers in Palaeontology 88, 22-114

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - 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

GBIF/Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

in Eastman-Zittel, Text-Book Paleont., 2nd ed., 1 - 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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