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Arctoceras ✝

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Description

Arctoceras is a genus of ceratitid ammonoids from the Lower Triassic with a moderately narrow discoidal shell and ceratitic suture.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3248689	https://www.gbif.org/species/3248689
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	14032	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14032

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Arctoceratidae : Arctoceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ceratitida : Arctoceratidae : Arctoceras

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	Ceratitida	Hyatt 1884
superfamily	Meekoceratoidea	Waagen 1895
family	Arctoceratidae	Arthaber 1911
genus	Arctoceras	Hyatt 1900

Scientific Name

Arctoceras Hyatt, 1900

Name Published In

in Eastman-Zittel, Text-Book Palaeont., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Arctoceras	genus	belongs to Arctoceratinae	stated with evidence	Runnegar, 1969
Arctoceras	genus	belongs to Meekoceratidae	stated without evidence	Tozer, 1981
Arctoceras	genus	belongs to Arctoceratidae	stated with evidence	Tozer, 1994
Arctoceras	genus	belongs to Ceratitida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Arctoceras	genus	belongs to Arctoceratidae	stated with evidence	Shigeta and Zakharov, 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ceratitida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ceratitida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ceratitida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arctoceras blomstrandi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras erebori ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras kiparisovae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras labogensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arctoceras meridionale ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras oebergi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras omoloiense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras robinsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras schalteggeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras septentrionale ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		31	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras strigatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras subhydaspis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctoceras tuberculatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1900	Arctoceras Hyatt
1969	Arctoceras Runnegar p. 826
1981	Arctoceras Tozer
1994	Arctoceras Tozer p. 74
2002	Arctoceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2009	Arctoceras Shigeta and Zakharov p. 117
2013	Arctoceras Brayard et al. p. 180

References

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

Runnegar B. (1969) A Lower Triassic Ammonoid Fauna from Southeast Queensland, Journal of Paleontology 43 3, 818-828

Tozer E. T. (1981) Triassic Ammonoidea: Classification, evolution and relationship with Permian and Jurassic Forms, The Ammonoidea: The evolution classification, mode of life and geological usefulness of a major fossil group, 66-100

Tozer E. T. (1994) Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467, 1-663

Shigeta Y., Zakharov Y. D. (2009) Systematic Paleontology: Cephalopods, The Lower Triassic System in the Abrek Bay area, south Primorye, Russia 38, 44-140

Brayard A., Bylund K. G., et al (2013) Systematic paleontology, in Smithian ammonoid faunas from Utah: implications for Early Triassic biostratigraphy, correlation and basinal paleogeography, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 132

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

refer synonym source - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

web search (AJR) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges., 51 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

in Eastman-Zittel, Text-Book Palaeont., 1 - 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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