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Erymnoceras ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4622688	https://www.gbif.org/species/4622688
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	14857	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14857

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Pachyceratidae : Erymnoceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Pachyceratidae : Erymnoceras

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	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Perisphinctoidea	(Steinman 1890)
family	Pachyceratidae	Buckman 1918
genus	Erymnoceras	Hyatt 1900

Scientific Name

Erymnoceras Hyatt, 1900

Name Published In

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

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Erymnoceras	genus	belongs to Pachyceratidae	stated with evidence	Arkell, 1952
Erymnoceras	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

166 - 164 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

165 - 161 Ma
Jurassic

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)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Erymnoceras ajax ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Erymnoceras baylei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	165 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Erymnoceras coronatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		17	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Erymnoceras coronoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	165 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Erymnoceras doliforme ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		19	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Erymnoceras nodosum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	165 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Erymnoceras philbyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	165 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Erymnoceras schloenbachi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Erymnoceras triplicatum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	165 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Stephanoceras triplicatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1952	Erymnoceras Arkell p. 289
1957	Erymnoceras Arkell et al. p. 296
2002	Erymnoceras Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Arkell W. J. (1952) Jurassic ammonites from Jebel Tuwaiq, central Arabia, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 236, 241-313

Arkell W. J., Furnish W. M., et al (1957) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4, Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea, 1-490

GBIF/Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Invertebrate Paleontology DiGIR Service - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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

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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