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Phylloceratinae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	86841	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=86841

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Phylloceratida : Phylloceratidae : Phylloceratinae

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	Phylloceratida
superfamily	Phylloceratoidea
family	Phylloceratidae	Zittel 1884
subfamily	Phylloceratinae	Zittel 1884

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Phylloceratinae	subfamily	belongs to Phylloceratidae	stated with evidence	Westermann, 1969
Phylloceratinae	subfamily	belongs to Phylloceratidae	stated without evidence	Kennedy and Klinger, 1977
Phylloceratinae	subfamily	belongs to Phylloceratidae	stated with evidence	Wright and Kennedy, 1984
Phylloceratinae	subfamily	belongs to Phylloceratidae	stated without evidence	Alsen, 2006
Phylloceratinae	subfamily	belongs to Phylloceratidae	stated with evidence	Grigore, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

136

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Phylloceratida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Phylloceratida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ammonoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. J. Kennedy and H.C. Klinger. 1977. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Phylloceratidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 27(5):347-380

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Adabofoloceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Calaiceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	21	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Carinophylloceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Hantkeniceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	60	197 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Holcophylloceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	122	201 Ma Early Jurassic	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Lepeniceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Macrophylloceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Neophylloceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	143	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Partschiceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	198	199 Ma Early Jurassic	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Phylloceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1,188	237 Ma Middle Triassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Phyllopachyceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	503	145 Ma Late Jurassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ptychophylloceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	72	183 Ma Early Jurassic	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Zetoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	112	201 Ma Early Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1884	Phylloceratinae Zittel
1969	Phylloceratinae Westermann p. 36
1970	Phylloceratinae Henderson p. 3
1973	Phylloceratinae Verma and Westermann p. 162
1975	Phylloceratinae Klinger et al. p. 657
1977	Phylloceratinae Kennedy and Klinger p. 351
1984	Phylloceratinae Wright and Kennedy p. 38
1985	Phylloceratinae Klinger p. 3
1993	Phylloceratinae Ward and Kennedy p. 15
1994	Phylloceratinae Kennedy p. 216
1995	Phylloceratinae Futakami et al. p. 81
1995	Phylloceratinae Kennedy p. 388
1996	Phylloceratinae Reboulet p. 181
1996	Phylloceratinae Wright et al. p. 1
1998	Phylloceratinae Blau p. 195
1999	Phylloceratinae Kennedy p. 643

Year	Name and Author
1999	Phylloceratinae Kennedy and Summesberger p. 24
2000	Phylloceratinae Arkadiev et al. p. 96
2001	Phylloceratinae F?zy p. 26
2004	Phylloceratinae Pallini et al. p. 4
2006	Phylloceratinae Alsen p. 122
2006	Phylloceratinae Hillebrandt p. 35
2006	Phylloceratinae Macchioni et al. p. 559
2011	Phylloceratinae Grigore p. 191
2013	Phylloceratinae Grigore p. 82
2014	Phylloceratinae Sato and Yamada p. 26
2015	Phylloceratinae Ifrim et al. p. 233
2015	Phylloceratinae Majidifard p. 27
2018	Phylloceratinae El Qot p. 148
2018	Phylloceratinae Kennedy and Morris p. 86
2018	Phylloceratinae Seyed-Emami, et al.

References

Kennedy W. J., Klinger H.C. (1977) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Phylloceratidae, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 27 5, 347-380

Westermann G. E. G. (1969) The ammonite fauna of the Kialagvik Formation at Wide Bay, Alaska Peninsula. Part II. Sonninia sowerbyi zone (Bajocian), Bulletins of American Paleontology 57, 1-226

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

Verma H. M., Westermann G. E. G. (1973) The Tithonian (Jurassic) ammonite fauna of Sierra Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Bulletins of American Paleontology 63 277, 107-320

Klinger H. C., Wiedmann J., et al (1975) A new carinate phylloceratid ammonite from the early Albian (Cretaceous) of Zululand, South Africa, Palaeontology 18 3, 657-664

Wright C. W., Kennedy W. J. (1984) The Ammonoidea of the Lower Chalk, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, 1-126

Klinger H. C. (1985) Upper Cretaceous Cephalopoda from offshore deposits off the Natal south coast, South Africa., Palaeontologia Africana 26 1, 1-11

Ward P. D., Kennedy W. J. (1993) Maastrichtian ammonites from the Biscay region (France, Spain), The Paleontological Society Memoir 34, 1-58

Kennedy W. J. (1994) Cenomanian ammonites from Cassis, Bouches-du-Rhone, France, Palaeopelagos Special Publication 1, 209-254

Futakami M., Matsukawa M., et al (1995) Barremian ammonites from the Longzhaogou Group in eastern Heilongjiang, northeast China, Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 101, 79-85

Kennedy W. J. (1995) Systematic palaeontology, in Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées), Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine 19, 377-499

Reboulet S. (1996) L'évolution des ammonites du Valanginien-Hauterivien inférieur du bassin Vocontien et de la plate-form Provençale (sud-est de la France): relations avec la stratigraphie séquentielle et implications biostratigraphiques, Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie Lyon 137, 1-371

Wright C. W., Calloman J. H., et al (1996) Cretaceous Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology L 4, 1-362

Blau J. (1998) Monographie der Ammoniten des Obersinemuriums (Lotharingium, Lias) der Lienzer Dolomiten (Österreich): Biostratigraphie, Systematik und Paläobiogeographie, Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 17, 177-285

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

Arkadiev V. V., Atabekian A. A., et al (2000) Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 255, 85-128

Főzy I. (2001) Campanian (Late Cretaceous) cephalopods from Sümeg (Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 19, 25-37

Pallini G., Elmi S., et al (2004) Late Toarcian - Late Aalenian ammonites assemblage from Mt. Magaggiaro (Western Sicily, Italy), Geologica Romana 37, 1-66

Alsen P. (2006) The Early Cretaceous (Late Ryazanian-Early Hauterivian) ammonite fauna of North-East Greenland: taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and biogeography, Fossils and Strata 53, 1-229

Hillebrandt A. (2006) Ammoniten aus dem Pliensbachium (Carixium und Domerium) von Südamerika, Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 25, 1-403

Macchioni F., Smith P. L., et al (2006) Late early Sinemurian (early Jurassic) Ammonites from the Taseko Lakes map area, British Columbia, Palaeontology 49, 557-583

Grigore D. (2011) Phylloceratids from the Upper Jurassic deposits of Hăghimaş Mts. (the Eastern Carpathians - Romania), Oltenia - Studii şi Comunicări Ştiinţele Naturii 27, 191-202

Grigore D. (2013) Revised ammonites fauna (phylloceratids, lytoceratids and aspidoceratids-Sutneria species) from "Acanthicum Beds" of the Hăghimaş Mts. (eastern Carpathians - Romania), Revue Roumaine de Géologie 57, 81-110

Sato T., Yamada T. (2014) A new Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) ammonite assemblage from the Arimine Formation (Tetori Group) in the Arimine area, southeastern Toyama Prefecture, northern Central Japan, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series C, Geology and Paleontology 40, 21-55

Ifrim C., Stinnesbeck W., et al (2015) Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) cephalopods from the Parras Shale near Saucedas, Coahuila, Mexico, Journal of South American Earth Sciences 64, 229-257

Majidifard M. R. (2015) Late Bajocian-Bathonian ammonites from northeast Iran, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 11, 25-41

El Qot G. M. (2018) Aptian-early Cenomanian ammonites from north Sinai, Egypt: systematic paleontology and biostratigraphy, Cretaceous Research 85, 142-171

Kennedy W. J., Morris N. J. (2018) An early Cenomanian ammonite fauna from near Lindi, Tanzania, Cretaceous Research 87, 84-101

Seyed-Emami, K., Raoufian, A., et al (2018) Late Bajocian and Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) ammonites from the\r\nDalichai Formation north of Damghan (Alborz, North Iran) 288 2, 183-203 doi:10.1127/njgpa/2018/0732

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