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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	13848	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13848

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Goniatitida : Thalassoceratidae : Prothalassoceras

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	Thalassoceratoidea
family	Thalassoceratidae	Hyatt 1900
genus	Prothalassoceras	Böse 1919

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Prothalassoceras	genus	belongs to Thalassoceratidae	stated with evidence	Leonova, 1989
Prothalassoceras	genus	belongs to Goniatitida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Prothalassoceras	genus	belongs to Thalassoceratidae	stated with evidence	Korn, 2006
Prothalassoceras	genus	belongs to Thalassoceratinae	stated with evidence	Furnish et al., 2009
Prothalassoceras	genus	belongs to Thalassoceratidae	stated with evidence	Zhou, 2017

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 Goniatitida)

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	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Prothalassoceras bashkiricum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras biforme ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	299 Ma Carboniferous	296 Ma Permian
Prothalassoceras bogoslovskayae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Prothalassoceras bostocki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Prothalassoceras caddoense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras inexpectans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	307 Ma Carboniferous	307 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras inflatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras jaikense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	19	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras kingorum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras notabile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras sangvorense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Prothalassoceras serratum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras solitum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Prothalassoceras welleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	299 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1919	Prothalassoceras Böse p. 101
1989	Prothalassoceras Leonova p. 115
2002	Allothalassoceras Leonova
2002	Prothalassoceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Allothalassoceras Korn
2006	Prothalassoceras Korn
2009	Prothalassoceras Furnish et al. p. 107
2017	Prothalassoceras Zhou p. 84

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

Leonova T. B. (1989) Systematic paleontology, in Rannepermskie ammonoidei Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 235, 1-198

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

Zhou Z. R. (2017) Permian basinal ammonoid sequence in Nanpanjiang area of South China - possible overlap between basinal Guadalupian and platform-based Lopingian, Journal of Paleontology 91 Memoir 74, 1-95

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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