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Anisoceratidae ✝

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Anisoceratidae is an extinct family of heteromorph ammonites which belong to the Ancyloceratina superfamily Turrilitoidea. Members of the family range is from the lower Albian to the upper Turonian. The family is possibly derived from a member of the Hamitidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3245798	https://www.gbif.org/species/3245798
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	96545	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=96545

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Anisoceratidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Anisoceratidae

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	Ancyloceratina	Wiedmann 1966
superfamily	Turrilitoidea
family	Anisoceratidae	Hyatt 1900

Scientific Name

Anisoceratidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Anisoceratidae	family	belongs to Turrilitaceae	stated without evidence	Cantu-Chapa, 1962
Anisoceratidae	family	belongs to Ancylocerataceae	stated with evidence	Förster, 1975
Anisoceratidae	family	belongs to Turrilitaceae	stated with evidence	Wright, 1979

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

122 - 112 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

85.8 - 83.5 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)

R. A. Henderson. 1990. Late Albian ammonites from the Northern Territory, Australia. Alcheringa 14:109-148

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anisoceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Algerites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Allocrioceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	42	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Anisoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	127	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Idiohamites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	41	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ndumuiceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Phlycticrioceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Protanisoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	63	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tarrantites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Algeritidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Algeritidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1900	Anisoceratidae Hyatt
1925	Algeritidae Spath p. 190
1926	Phlycticrioceratidae Spath
1962	Anisoceratidae Cantu-Chapa p. 31
1975	Anisoceratidae Förster p. 169
1979	Phlycticrioceratidae Summesberger p. 117
1979	Anisoceratidae Wright p. 288
1984	Anisoceratidae Kennedy p. 134
1988	Anisoceratidae Kennedy et al. p. 41
1988	Phlycticrioceratidae Thomel p. 19
1990	Anisoceratidae Henderson p. 137
1990	Anisoceratidae Kennedy and Cobban p. 416
1994	Anisoceratidae Kennedy p. 231

Year	Name and Author
1995	Anisoceratidae Kennedy p. 427
1998	Anisoceratidae Kennedy et al. p. 35
2000	Anisoceratidae Arkadiev et al. p. 115
2005	Anisoceratidae Kennedy p. 406
2007	Anisoceratidae Kennedy and Latil p. 467
2008	Anisoceratidae Kennedy et al. p. 45
2008	Anisoceratidae Kennedy et al. p. 131
2009	Anisoceratidae Kennedy and Klinger p. 43
2010	Anisoceratidae Klinger et al. p. 91
2015	Anisoceratidae Kennedy and Gale p. 516
2016	Anisoceratidae Sharifi et al. p. 604
2018	Anisoceratidae Kennedy and Morris p. 95

References

Henderson R. A. (1990) Late Albian ammonites from the Northern Territory, Australia, Alcheringa 14, 109-148

Cantu-Chapa A. (1962) Étude biostratigraphique des Ammonites (Jurassique supérieur et Crétacé) du Mexique (Centre et Nord), Unpublished PhD thesis, A la Faculté des Sciences de L'Université de Paris, 1-103

Förster R. (1975) Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman, Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B 12, 3-324

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

Wright C. W. (1979) The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian), Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 31, 281-332

Kennedy W. J. (1984) Systematic palaeontology and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite faunas of the French Coniacian, Special Papers in Palaeontology 31, 1-160

Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A., et al (1988) Middle Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) molluscan fauna from the base of the Boquillas Formation, Cerro de Muleros, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114, 35-44

Thomel G. (1988) Les ammonites néocrétacées des chaînes subalpines méridionales, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 153, 1-79

Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A. (1990) Cenomanian micromorphic ammonites from the western interior of the USA, Palaeontology 33, 379-422

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

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

Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A., et al (1998) Ammonites from the Weno Limestone (Albian) in Northeast Texas, American Museum Novitates 3236, 1-46

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

Kennedy W. J. (2005) Systematic palaeontology, in Upper Albian and Lower Cenomanian ammonites from the Main Street Limestone, Grayson Marl and Del Rio Clay in northeast Texas, Cretaceous Research 26, 349-428

Kennedy W. J., Latil J. L. (2007) The Upper Albian ammonite succession in the Montlaux section, Hautes-Alpes, France, Acta Geologica Polonica 57 4, 453-478

Kennedy W. J., Jagt J. W. M., et al (2008) The late Late Albian (Mortoniceras fallax Zone) cephalopod fauna from the Bracquegnies formation at Strépy-Thieu (Hainaut, southern Belgium), Geologica Belgica 11, 35-69

Kennedy W. J., King C., et al (2008) The upper Albian and lower Cenomanian succession at Kolbay, eastern Mangyshlak (southwest Kazakhstan), Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 78, 117-147

Kennedy W. J., Klinger H. C. (2009) The heteromorph ammonite Ndumuiceras variabile gen. et sp. nov. from the Albian Mzinene Formation, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, African Natural History 5, 43-47

Klinger H. C., Kennedy W. J., et al (2010) Tarrantites, a new heteromorph ammonite genus from the Albian of Texas and Pakistan, African Natural History 6, 91-99

Kennedy W. J., Gale A. S. (2015) Late Turonian ammonites from Haute-Normandie, France, Acta Geologica Polonica 65, 507-524

Sharifi J., Raisossadat S. N., et al (2016) Albian and Cenomanian ammonites of the eastern margin of the Lut block (East Iran), Carnets de Géologie 16, 591-613

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

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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