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Alsatites ✝

Description

Alsatites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. They lived during the Early Jurassic, Hettangian till the Sinemurian and are generally extremely evolute, many whorled. Keel broad and blunt organisms, they also exhibit a primary ribbing which is close and persistent.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsatites, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4626651https://www.gbif.org/species/4626651
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)14538https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14538
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Arietitidae : Alsatites
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Arietitidae : Alsatites
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMolluscaLinnaeus 1758
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea
orderAmmonitidaHyatt 1889
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPsiloceratoidea
familyArietitidaeHyatt 1875
subfamilyAlsatitinae
genusAlsatitesHaug 1894
Scientific NameAlsatites Haug, 1894
Name Published InBull. Soc. Géol. France, (3) 22
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Alsatitesgenusbelongs to Alsatitinaestated without evidenceDelsate et al., 2002
Alsatitesgenusbelongs to Ammonoideasecond handSepkoski, 2002
Alsatitesgenusbelongs to Alsatitinaestated with evidenceHowarth, 2013
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)7
First Recorded Appearance201 - 197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic
Motilityfast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)
Visionwell-developed (based on Cephalopoda)
Dietcarnivore (based on Ammonoidea)
Taphonomyaragonite (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
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsatites

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Alsatites bipartitus ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		4201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Alsatites laqueus ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		2201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Alsatites liasicus ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		6201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Alsatites nigromontanus ✝
species		listed (PBDB)2201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Alsatites pamlicoensis ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Alsatites proaries ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		17201 Ma
Early Jurassic		201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Arietites nigromontanus
species		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1894Alsatites Haug
1922Proarietites Lange p. 461
1987Tayloricites Guex
2002Alsatites Delsate et al. p. 8
2002Alsatites Sepkoski, Jr.
2013Alsatites Howarth p. 12

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560
Delsate D., Duffin C. J., et al (2002) A new microvertebrate fauna from the Middle Hettangian (Early Jurassic) of Fontenoille (Province of Luxembourg, south Belgium), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Belgium 48, 3-83
Howarth M. K. (2013) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea, Treatise Online 57, 1-139
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
Bull. Soc. Géol. France, (3) 22 - 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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