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Neophylloceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4622301	https://www.gbif.org/species/4622301
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	14487	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14487

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Phylloceratidae : Neophylloceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Phylloceratida : Phylloceratidae : Neophylloceras

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	Phylloceratida
superfamily	Phylloceratoidea
family	Phylloceratidae	Zittel 1884
subfamily	Phylloceratinae	Zittel 1884
genus	Neophylloceras	Shimizu 1934

Scientific Name

Neophylloceras (Shimizu, 1934)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Neophylloceras	genus	belongs to Phylloceratinae	stated with evidence	Henderson, 1970
Neophylloceras	genus	belongs to Phylloceratidae	stated with evidence	Matsumoto, 1984
Neophylloceras	subgenus	belongs to Hypophylloceras	stated with evidence	Morozumi, 1985
Neophylloceras	subgenus	belongs to Phylloceras	stated with evidence	Henderson and McNamara, 1985
Neophylloceras	subgenus	belongs to Hypophylloceras	stated with evidence	Wright et al., 1996
Neophylloceras	subgenus	belongs to Phylloceras	stated with evidence	Kennedy, 1999
Neophylloceras	genus	belongs to Phylloceratitida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Neophylloceras	subgenus	belongs to Hypophylloceras	stated with evidence	Ifrim et al., 2013
Neophylloceras	genus	belongs to Phylloceratinae	stated with evidence	Shigeta et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

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)

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/Neophylloceras

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) arturoi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		24	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) inflatum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		29	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		24	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) velledaeforme ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hypophylloceras arturoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neophylloceras arturoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neophylloceras decipiens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neophylloceras hetonaiense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neophylloceras inflatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neophylloceras marshalli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Neophylloceras meridianum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Neophylloceras nera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neophylloceras radiatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Neophylloceras ramosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neophylloceras surya species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neophylloceras ultimum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Neophylloceras ultinatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Neophylloceras velledaeforme species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phylloceras (Neophylloceras) decipiens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Phylloceras (Neophylloceras) nera ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Epiphylloceras Collignon, 1956	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Phylloceratidae : *Epiphylloceras*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1934	Neophylloceras Shimizu
1935	Paraphylloceras Shimizu p. 180
1956	Epiphylloceras Collignon
1970	Neophylloceras Henderson p. 3
1984	Neophylloceras Matsumoto p. 8
1985	Phylloceras (Neophylloceras) Henderson and McNamara p. 38
1985	Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) Morozumi p. 14

Year	Name and Author
1993	Phylloceras (Neophylloceras) Ward and Kennedy p. 15
1996	Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) Wright et al. p. 1
1999	Phylloceras (Neophylloceras) Kennedy p. 643
2000	Phylloceras (Neophylloceras) Arkadiev et al. p. 96
2002	Neophylloceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2013	Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) Ifrim et al. p. 882
2015	Neophylloceras Shigeta et al. p. 110

References

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

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

Matsumoto T. (1984) Part I. Ammonites from the Upper Campanian of the Teshio Mountains, Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 27, 5-32

Henderson R. A., McNamara K. J. (1985) Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia, Palaeontology 28 1, 34-88

Morozumi Y. (1985) Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) ammonites from Awaji Island, southwest Japan, Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History 39, 1-58

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

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

Kennedy W. J. (1999) Systematic paleontology, in Maastrichtian ammonites from Balochistan, Pakistan, Journal of Paleontology 73, 641-662

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

Ifrim C., Stinnesbeck W., et al (2013) An endemic cephalopod assemblage from the Lower Campanian (Late Cretaceous) Parras Shale, western Coahuila, Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 87, 881-901

Shigeta Y., Nishimura T., et al (2015) Middle and late Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Akkeshi Bay area, eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan and their biostratigraphic implications, Paleontological Research 19, 107-127

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

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