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Description

Tainoceras is an extinct coiled cephalopod that live during the later part of the Paleozoic and Triassic, that belongs to the nautiloid family Tainoceratidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4624382	https://www.gbif.org/species/4624382
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	13315	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13315

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Tainoceratidae : Tainoceras

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	Nautiloidea	Agassiz 1847
order	Nautilida	Agassiz 1847
superfamily	Trigonoceratoidea
family	Tainoceratidae	Hyatt 1883
genus	Tainoceras	Hyatt 1884

Scientific Name

Tainoceras Hyatt, 1884

Name Published In

Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 22

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tainoceras	genus	belongs to Tainoceratidae	stated with evidence	Teichert et al., 1964
Tainoceras	genus	belongs to Nautilida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

304 - 299 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Nautilida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Nautilida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Nautilida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Nautilus mingshanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nautilus orientalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nautilus trautscholdi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleuronautilus toulai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tainoceras abukumaense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	265 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Tainoceras balestense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tainoceras carinatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	265 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Tainoceras cavatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Tainoceras changlingpuense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Tainoceras clydense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	290 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Tainoceras comptum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	269 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Tainoceras debile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Tainoceras duttoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Tainoceras gibbosum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tainoceras guizhouense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tainoceras hunanense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Tainoceras kitakamiense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	290 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Tainoceras lateronodosum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tainoceras malsineri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tainoceras mingshanense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Tainoceras monilifer species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tainoceras murrayi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Tainoceras nebrascense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	303 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Tainoceras orientale ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	279 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Tainoceras rotundatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Tainoceras schellbachi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	279 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Tainoceras sexlineatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	303 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous
Tainoceras toulai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Tainoceras trautscholdi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Tainoceras trimuense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Tainoceras wyomingense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1883	Tainoceras Hyatt
1964	Tainoceras Teichert et al. p. 413
1967	Tainoceras Shimanskiy p. 91
2002	Tainoceras Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Teichert C., Kummel B., et al (1964) Cephalopoda - general features - Endoceratoidea - Actinoceratoidea - Nautiloidea - Bactritoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology K 3, 1-519

Shimanskiy V. N. (1967) Kammenougol'nye Nautilida, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 115, 1-258

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 22 - 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

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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