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Kitchinites ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4627647	https://www.gbif.org/species/4627647
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	15076	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15076

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Desmoceratidae : Kitchinites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Desmoceratidae : Kitchinites

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	Desmoceratoidea
family	Desmoceratidae	Zittel 1895
subfamily	Puzosiinae	Spath 1922
genus	Kitchinites	Spath 1922

Scientific Name

Kitchinites Spath, 1922

Name Published In

Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa, 10

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Kitchinites	genus	belongs to Puzosiinae	stated with evidence	Henderson, 1970
Kitchinites	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

86.3 - 83.6 Ma
Late/Upper 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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Kitchinites (Kitchinites) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		19	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kitchinites angolaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kitchinites angustus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kitchinites brevicostatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kitchinites busnardoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kitchinites darwini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		29	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kitchinites enayi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kitchinites fascigerus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kitchinites flabelliformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kitchinites ifrimae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kitchinites laurae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kitchinites pondicherryanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kitchinites quadratus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kitchinites spathi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kitchinites spengleri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Kitchinites stenomphalus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kitchinites vicentensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1922	Kitchinites Spath
1970	Kitchinites Henderson p. 32
1979	Kitchinites Summesberger p. 131
1986	Kitchinites Macellari p. 19
1999	Kitchinites Kennedy p. 646
1999	Kitchinites Kennedy and Summesberger p. 24
2002	Kitchinites Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

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

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

Macellari C. E. (1986) Late Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonite fauna from Seymour Island (Antarctic Peninsula), The Paleontological Society Memoir 18, 1-59

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

Kennedy W. J., Summesberger H. (1999) New Late Campanian ammonites from the Gschliefgraben near Gmuden (Ultrahelvetic, Austria), Beiträge zur Paläontologie 24, 23-39

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa, 10 - 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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