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Gzheloceras ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4624380	https://www.gbif.org/species/4624380
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	13207	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13207

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Tainoceratidae : Gzheloceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Gzheloceratidae : Gzheloceras

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	Nautiloidea	Agassiz 1847
order	Nautilida	Agassiz 1847
superfamily	Tainocerataceae	Hyatt 1883
family	Gzheloceratidae	Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954
genus	Gzheloceras	Ruzhentzev & Shimanskii 1954

Scientific Name

Gzheloceras Ruzhentzev & Shimanskii, 1954

Name Published In

Trud. paleont. Inst., Akad. Nauk SSSR, 50

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gzheloceras	genus	belongs to Tainoceratidae	stated with evidence	Teichert et al., 1964
Gzheloceras	genus	belongs to Gzheloceratidae	stated with evidence	Shimanskiy, 1967
Gzheloceras	genus	belongs to Nautilida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

345 - 339 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

269 - 265 Ma
Permian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Nautilida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Nautilida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Nautilida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy. 1954. Nizhnepermskie svernutye i sognutye Nautiloidei yuzhnogo Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 50:1-150

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Gzheloceras antiquum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	345 Ma Carboniferous	345 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras biangulare ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Gzheloceras donetzense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	323 Ma Carboniferous	323 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras ellipsoidale ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Gzheloceras faticanum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras maklai ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras memorandum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras nikitini ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras orthocostatum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	323 Ma Carboniferous	323 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras sholakense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Gzheloceras striatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	345 Ma Carboniferous	345 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras tacitum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	314 Ma Carboniferous	314 Ma Carboniferous
Gzheloceras uralense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Huanghoceras donetzensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Huanghoceras orthocostatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Huanghoceras tacitum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nautilus nikitini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1954	Gzheloceras Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy p. 75
1964	Gzheloceras Teichert et al. p. 414
1967	Gzheloceras Shimanskiy p. 73
2002	Gzheloceras Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Ruzhentsev V. E., Shimanskiy V. N. (1954) Nizhnepermskie svernutye i sognutye Nautiloidei yuzhnogo Urala, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 50, 1-150

Teichert C., Kummel B., et al (1964) Cephalopoda - general features - Endoceratoidea - Actinoceratoidea - Nautiloidea - Bactritoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology K 3, 1-519

Shimanskiy V. N. (1967) Kammenougol'nye Nautilida, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 115, 1-258

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

Trud. paleont. Inst., Akad. Nauk SSSR, 50 - 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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