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Glaphyritidae ✝

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Description

Glaphyritidae is one of six families of the Somoholitoidea superfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4627502	https://www.gbif.org/species/4627502
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	93019	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=93019

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Glaphyritidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Goniatitida : Glaphyritidae

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	Goniatitida	Hyatt 1884
suborder	Goniatitina	Hyatt 1884
superfamily	Gastrioceratoidea
family	Glaphyritidae	Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971

Scientific Name

Glaphyritidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Glaphyritidae	family	belongs to Gastriocerataceae	stated with evidence	Titus, 1997
Glaphyritidae	family	belongs to Somoholitaceae	stated with evidence	Korn, 2006
Glaphyritidae	family	belongs to Gastrioceratoidea	stated with evidence	Furnish et al., 2009
Glaphyritidae	family	belongs to Somoholitaceae	stated without evidence	Korn and Sudar, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

144

First Recorded Appearance

339 - 323 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

290 - 279 Ma
Permian

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Goniatitida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1971. Namurskiy etap v evolyutsii ammonoidey. Rannenamyurskie ammonoidei. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 133:1-382

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Fayettevilleinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	24	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Glaphyritinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	257	339 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Stenoglaphyritinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	111	339 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Clistoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Euroceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Fayettevillea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	22	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Glaphyrites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	213	326 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Kardailites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Kolymoglaphyrites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Paracravenoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	36	331 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Paraschartymites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	13	323 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Physematites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Richardsonites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	339 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Schartymites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	39	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Stenoglaphyrites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	43	339 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Subitoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Syngastrioceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	121	326 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Zephyroceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1971	Glaphyritidae Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 285
1997	Glaphyritidae Titus p. 159
2006	Glaphyritidae Korn
2009	Glaphyritidae Furnish et al. p. 77
2016	Glaphyritidae Korn and Sudar p. 210
1971	Glaphyritidae Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 285

Year	Name and Author
1997	Glaphyritidae Titus p. 159
2000	Glaphyritidae Titus p. 28
2002	Glaphyritidae Leonova
2006	Glaphyritidae Korn
2009	Glaphyritidae Furnish et al. p. 77
2016	Glaphyritidae Korn and Sudar p. 210

References

Ruzhentsev V. E., Bogoslovskaya M. F. (1971) Namurskiy etap v evolyutsii ammonoidey. Rannenamyurskie ammonoidei, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 133, 1-382

Titus A. L. (1997) The first record of Cancelloceras (Early Pennsylvanian Ammonoidea) from southern Nevada: implications for timing of regional Mid-Carboniferous sea-level fluctuations, Journal of Paleontology 71, 158-162

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

Korn D., Sudar M. N. (2016) The Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous ammonoids (Cephalopoda) from Milivojevia Kamenjar, Družeti (NW Serbia) and their stratigraphy, Bulletin of Geosciences 91, 187-220

Leonova T. B. (2002) Permian ammonoids: classification and phylogeny, Paleontological Journal 36 Suppl 1, 1-114

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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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