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Description

Levisoceras is a genus of early Ordovician ellesmerocerid cephalopods.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4624555	https://www.gbif.org/species/4624555
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	12387	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=12387

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Nautilidae : Levisoceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ellesmerocerida : Ellesmeroceratidae : Levisoceras

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
order	Ellesmerocerida
family	Ellesmeroceratidae	Kobayashi 1934
genus	Levisoceras	Foerste 1925

Scientific Name

Levisoceras Foerste, 1925

Name Published In

Denison Univ. Bull., 25, no. 3 (J. Sci. Lab., 21

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Levisoceras	genus	belongs to Cyrtendoceratidae	stated with evidence	Ulrich et al., 1943
Levisoceras	genus	belongs to Ellesmeroceratidae	stated without evidence	Unklesbay and Young, 1956
Levisoceras	genus	belongs to Ellesmeroceratidae	stated with evidence	Flower, 1964
Levisoceras	genus	belongs to Ellesmerocerida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

485 - 479 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

479 - 468 Ma
Ordovician

Environment

marine (based on Ellesmerocerida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ellesmerocerida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Cephalopoda)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ellesmerocerida)

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/Levisoceras

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cyrtocerina mercurius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Levisoceras arctedorsatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras belli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Levisoceras complanatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras constrictum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras contractum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras curvatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras edwardsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras ellipticum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras instabile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras magnum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Levisoceras mercurius ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Levisoceras obliquatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras percurvatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras raaschi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras subgracile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Levisoceras transitum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1925	Levisoceras Foerste
1943	Levisoceras Ulrich et al.
1956	Levisoceras Unklesbay and Young p. 484
1964	Levisoceras Flower p. 65
1964	Levisoceras Teichert et al. p. 140
2002	Levisoceras Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Ulrich E. O., Foerste A. F., et al (1943) Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones, Geological Society of America Special Papers 49, 1-240

Unklesbay A. G., Young R. S. (1956) Early Ordovician nautiloids from Virginia, Journal of Paleontology 30 3, 481-491

Flower R. H. (1964) The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda), State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12, 234 p.

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

Denison Univ. Bull., 25, no. 3 (J. Sci. Lab., 21 - 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

SN2000 unverified - 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

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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