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Gaudryceras ✝

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Gaudryceras sp.

Inoceramus Creek, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USA

Gaudryceras sp.

Inoceramus Creek, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USA

Gaudryceras sp.

Inoceramus Creek, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USA

Description

Gaudryceras is an ammonite genus belonging to the family Gaudryceratidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4625428	https://www.gbif.org/species/4625428
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	14918	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14918

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Gaudryceratidae : Gaudryceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Gaudryceratidae : Gaudryceras

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	Ammonitida	Hyatt 1889
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Tetragonitoidea
family	Gaudryceratidae	Spath 1927
genus	Gaudryceras	de Grossouvre 1894

Scientific Name

Gaudryceras de Grossouvre, 1894

Name Published In

Mém. Carte Géol. France (Rech. Craie sup.) 1893, 225, & Atl. pl.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gaudryceras	subgenus	belongs to Lytoceras	stated without evidence	Paulcke, 1907
Gaudryceras	genus	belongs to Gaudryceratinae	stated with evidence	Henderson, 1970
Gaudryceras	genus	belongs to Gaudryceratidae	stated without evidence	Kennedy and Klinger, 1979
Gaudryceras	genus	belongs to Gaudryceratidae	stated with evidence	Summesberger, 1980
Gaudryceras	genus	belongs to Gaudryceratidae	stated without evidence	Zaborski, 1985
Gaudryceras	genus	belongs to Tetragonitidae	stated without evidence	Thomel, 1988
Gaudryceras	genus	belongs to Gaudryceratidae	stated with evidence	Summesberger, 1992
Gaudryceras	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Gaudryceras	genus	belongs to Gaudryceratidae	stated with evidence	Kennedy et al., 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

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)

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/Gaudryceras

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		63	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) pictum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras alamedense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras analabense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras aureum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras beantalyense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras cassisianum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras crassicostatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras delvallense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras denmanense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras denseplicatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras hobetsense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras isovokyense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras izumiense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras kayei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		26	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras lauteli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras leptonema species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras makarovense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras mite species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras murdochi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras numidum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Gaudryceras pictum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras seymouriense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras stefaninii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras striatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras strictum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras tenuiliratum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		39	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras texanum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gaudryceras varagurense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gaudryceras varicostatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) alamedense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) aureum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) delvallense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) denmanense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) texanum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lytoceras aureum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lytoceras delvallense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lytoceras texanum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mesogaudryceras leptonema ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Vertebrites murdochi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Epigaudryceras Shimizu, 1934	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Gaudryceratidae : *Epigaudryceras*
Gandryceras Yabe, 1915	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Gaudryceratidae : *Gandryceras*
Hemigaudryceras Shimizu, 1934	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Gaudryceratidae : *Hemigaudryceras*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1894	Gaudryceras de Grossouvre
1907	Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) Paulcke p. 6
1926	Vertebrites Marshall p. 138
1927	Mesogaudryceras Spath
1934	Epigaudryceras Shimizu p. 67
1934	Hemigaudryceras Shimizu p. 67
1934	Pseudogaudryceras Shimizu p. 67
1935	Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) Shimizu
1953	Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) Spath p. 12
1958	Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) Anderson p. 183
1970	Gaudryceras Henderson p. 15
1970	Vertebrites Henderson p. 22
1978	Gaudryceras Cooper p. 60
1979	Gaudryceras Kennedy and Klinger p. 128
1979	Vertebrites Kennedy and Klinger p. 159
1979	Gaudryceras Summesberger p. 113
1980	Gaudryceras Summesberger p. 276
1984	Gaudryceras Wright and Kennedy p. 51
1984	Gaudryceras (Mesogaudryceras) Wright and Kennedy p. 51
1985	Gaudryceras Morozumi p. 24
1985	Vertebrites Morozumi p. 26
1985	Gaudryceras Zaborski p. 8

Year	Name and Author
1988	Gaudryceras Thomel p. 17
1992	Gaudryceras Summesberger p. 107
1993	Gaudryceras Kennedy and Cobban p. 409
1993	Gaudryceras Ward and Kennedy p. 17
1994	Gaudryceras Kennedy p. 218
1994	Gaudryceras (Mesogaudryceras) Kennedy p. 218
1995	Gaudryceras Kennedy p. 390
1996	Gaudryceras Wright et al. p. 3
1996	Gaudryceras (Mesogaudryceras) Wright et al. p. 3
1996	Vertebrites Wright et al. p. 4
1999	Gaudryceras Kennedy p. 644
2000	Gaudryceras Arkadiev et al. p. 98
2000	Mesogaudryceras Arkadiev et al. p. 99
2002	Gaudryceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Mesogaudryceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Vertebrites Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Gaudryceras Kennedy et al. p. 515
2010	Gaudryceras Hoffmann p. 65
2013	Gaudryceras Shigeta and Nishimura p. 48
2016	Gaudryceras Shigeta p. 334
2018	Gaudryceras Shigeta and Izukura p. 14
2019	Gaudryceras Gautam et al. p. 13

References

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

Paulcke W. J. (1907) Die Cephalopoden der oberen Kreide Südpatagoniens, Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg im Breisgau 15, 1-82

Marshall P. (1926) The Upper Cretaceous ammonites of New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 56, 129-210

Spath L. F. (1953) The Upper Cretaceous cephalopod fauna of Graham Land, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey Scientific Reports 3, 1-60

Anderson F. M. (1958) Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast, Geological Society of America Memoir 71, 1-378

Henderson R. A. (1970) Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand, Special Papers in Palaeontology 6, 1-82

Cooper M. R. (1978) Uppermost Cenomanian-basal Turonian ammonites from Salinas, Angola, Annals of the South African Museum 75 5, 1-152

Kennedy W. J., Klinger H. C. (1979) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 31 2, 121-174

Summesberger H. (1979) Eine obersantone Ammonitenfauna aus dem Becken von Gosau (Oberösterreich), Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 82, 109-176

Summesberger H. (1980) Neue Ammoniten aus der Sandkalkbank der Hochmoosschichten (Obersanton; Gosau, Österreich), Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 83, 275-283

Wright C. W., Kennedy W. J. (1984) The Ammonoidea of the Lower Chalk, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, 1-126

Morozumi Y. (1985) Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) ammonites from Awaji Island, southwest Japan, Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History 39, 1-58

Zaborski P. M. P. (1985) Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Calabar region, south-east Nigeria, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geol.) 39 1, 1-72

Thomel G. (1988) Les ammonites néocrétacées des chaînes subalpines méridionales, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 153, 1-79

Summesberger H. (1992) Ammoniten aus dem Turon (Oberkreide) der Nördlichen Kalkalpen (Österreich), Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 94, 103-133

Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A. (1993) Ammonites from the Saratoga Chalk (Upper Cretaceous), Arkansas, Journal of Paleontology 67 3, 404-434

Ward P. D., Kennedy W. J. (1993) Maastrichtian ammonites from the Biscay region (France, Spain), The Paleontological Society Memoir 34, 1-58

Kennedy W. J. (1994) Cenomanian ammonites from Cassis, Bouches-du-Rhone, France, Palaeopelagos Special Publication 1, 209-254

Kennedy W. J. (1995) Systematic palaeontology, in Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées), Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine 19, 377-499

Wright C. W., Calloman J. H., et al (1996) Cretaceous Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology L 4, 1-362

Kennedy W. J. (1999) Systematic paleontology, in Maastrichtian ammonites from Balochistan, Pakistan, Journal of Paleontology 73, 641-662

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

Kennedy W. J., Crame J. A., et al (2007) Coniacian ammonites from James Ross Island, Antarctica, Cretaceous Research 28 509, 531

Hoffmann R. (2010) New insights on the phylogeny of the Lytoceratoidea (Ammonitina) from the septal lobe and its functional interpretation, Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 29, 1-156

Shigeta Y., Nishimura T. (2013) A new species of Gaudryceras (Ammonoidea, Gaudryceratidae) from the lowest Maastrichtian of Hokkaido, Japan and its biostratigraphic implications, Paleontological Research 17, 47-57

Shigeta Y. (2016) Paleontological description, in Middle and late Campanian (Late Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Urakawa area, Hokkaido, northern Japan, Paleontological Research 20, 322-366

Shigeta Y., Izukura M. (2018) Discovery of the middle Campanian (Late Cretaceous) "Soya Fauna" ammonoids in the Hidaka area, Hokkaido, Japan, The Bulletin of the Hobetsu Museum 33, 11-25

Gautam J. P., Pandey B., et al (2019) Late Albian ammonites from the Cauvery Basin, south India, Cretaceous Research 102, 12-29

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

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

Mém. Carte Géol. France (Rech. Craie sup.) 1893, 225, & Atl. pl. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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