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Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) teicherti ✝

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	298703	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=298703

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

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	Tornoceratina	Wedekind 1918
superfamily	Praeglyphioceratoidea
family	Sporadoceratidae	Miller and Furnish 1957
subfamily	Sporadoceratinae	Miller and Furnish 1957
genus	Sporadoceras	Hyatt 1884
subgenus	Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras)	Hyatt 1884
species	Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) teicherti	Petersen 1975

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) teicherti	species	belongs to Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras)	stated with evidence	Petersen, 1975

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

376 - 371 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

371 - 359 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

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)

M. S. Petersen. 1975. Upper Devonian (Famennian) ammonoids from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Paleontological Society Memoir 8:1-55

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1975	Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) teicherti Petersen p. 40 figs. Pl 5, figs 4-9; text-fig 21C, 22C

Petersen M. S. (1975) Upper Devonian (Famennian) ammonoids from the Canning Basin, Western Australia, Paleontological Society Memoir 8, 1-55

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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