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Uddenites ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4625311	https://www.gbif.org/species/4625311
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	13997	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13997

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Medlicottiidae : Uddenites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Prolecanitida : Medlicottiidae : Uddenites

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	Prolecanitida	Miller and Furnish 1954
superfamily	Medlicottioidea
family	Medlicottiidae	Karpinsky 1889
subfamily	Uddenitinae	Miller and Furnish 1940
genus	Uddenites	Böse 1917

Scientific Name

Uddenites Böse, 1917

Name Published In

Univ. Texas Bull., No. 1762

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Uddenites	genus	belongs to Prolecanitida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Uddenites	genus	belongs to Uddenitidae	stated with evidence	Korn, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

307 - 304 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ammonoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Böse. 1919. The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762:1-241

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Uddenites convexus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	304 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Uddenites harlani ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	307 Ma Carboniferous	307 Ma Carboniferous
Uddenites orenburgensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Uddenites oweni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Uddenites postsakmarensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Uddenites sakmarensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Uddenites schucherti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Uddenites serratus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Uddenites tuberculatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1919	Uddenites Böse p. 55
2002	Uddenites Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Uddenites Korn
2009	Uddenites Furnish et al. p. 199
2019	Uddenites Leonova

References

Böse E. (1919) The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762, 1-241

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

Furnish W. M., Glenister B. F., et al (2009) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised: Mollusca 4, Volume 2: Carboniferous and Permian Ammonoidea (Goniatitida and Prolecanitida), 1-258

Leonova T. B. (2019) Classification of the late Paleozoic family Medlicottiidae Karpinsky (Ammonoidea), Paleontological Journal 53, 354-365

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

SN2000 unverified - 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

Univ. Texas Bull., No. 1762 - 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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