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Ordogeisonoceras ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4621952	https://www.gbif.org/species/4621952
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	103326	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=103326

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Geisonoceratidae : Ordogeisonoceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Orthocerida : Geisonoceratidae : Ordogeisonoceras

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	Orthoceratoidea	Zhuravleva 1994
order	Orthocerida	Kuhn 1940
family	Geisonoceratidae	Zhuravleva 1959
genus	Ordogeisonoceras	Frey 1995

Scientific Name

Ordogeisonoceras Frey, 1995

Name Published In

U S Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066-P:

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ordogeisonoceras	genus	belongs to Geisonoceratidae	stated with evidence	Kröger, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

461 - 456 Ma
Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

450 - 444 Ma
Paleozoic

Environment

marine (based on Orthocerida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Orthocerida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Orthocerida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Orthocerida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Geisonoceras foerstei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ordogeisonoceras amplicameratum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Ordogeisonoceras foerstei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Ordogeisonoceras tartuensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Ordogeisonoceras uppsalaensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Orthoceras amplicameratum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1995	Ordogeisonoceras Frey p. P39
2013	Ordogeisonoceras Kröger p. P39
2017	Ordogeisonoceras Kröger and Aubrechtova
2019	Ordogeisonoceras Kröger and Aubrechtová

References

Frey R. C. (1995) Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P, 1-126

Kröger B. (2013) The cephalopods of Boda Limestone, Late Ordovocian, of Dalarna, Sweden, European Journal of Taxonomy 41, 1-110

Kröger B., Aubrechtova M. (2017) Cephalopods from reef limestone of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia (latest Sandbian, Upper Ordovician) and the establishment of a local warm-water fauna, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14 7, 1-42

Kröger B., Aubrechtová M. (2019) The cephalopods of the Kullsberg Limestone Formation, Upper Ordovician, central Sweden and the effects of reef diversification on\r\ncephalopod diversity, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1-35

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

original work/web search - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Frey, 1995 (to be verified) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

U S Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066-P: - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Frey, R.C. (1995). Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U S Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1066-P, P1-P12 - 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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