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Arctonautilus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4624641	https://www.gbif.org/species/4624641
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	181659	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=181659

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Tainoceratidae : Arctonautilus

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	Trigonoceratoidea
family	Tainoceratidae	Hyatt 1883
genus	Arctonautilus	Sobolev 1989

Scientific Name

Arctonautilus Sobolev, 1989

Name Published In

Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki 727

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Arctonautilus	genus	belongs to Tainoceratidae	stated with evidence	Dagis et al., 1996

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

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)

E. S. Sobolev. 1989. Triasovye nautilidy severo-vostochnoy Azii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii I Geofiziki 727:1-193

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arctonautilus dolganensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctonautilus egorovi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctonautilus ljubovae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctonautilus migayi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctonautilus orbiculatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctonautilus spatiosus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctonautilus toscanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Arctonautilus zvetkovi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Germanonautilus ljubovae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1989	Arctonautilus Sobolev p. 66
1996	Arctonautilus Dagis et al. p. 81

References

Sobolev E. S. (1989) Triasovye nautilidy severo-vostochnoy Azii, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii I Geofiziki 727, 1-193

Dagis A. S., Dagis A. A., et al (1996) , Triasovaya Fauna Severo-Vostoka Azii, 1-232

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

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

original work (title/other) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki 727 - 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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