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Cotteroceras ✝
| Description | Cotteroceras is a genus of proterocameroceratids from the Lower Ordovician of North America and Siberia characterized by a long straight and compressed shell with very short camerae and long body chamber. Sutures are straight and oblique, sloping dorsoventrally toward the apex. The siphuncle is large but details are unknown. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotteroceras, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Proterocameroceratidae : Cotteroceras | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Endocerida : Proterocameroceratidae : Cotteroceras | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Cotteroceras Ulrich & Foerste, 1935 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Denison Univ. Bull., J. Sci. Lab., 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 485 - 479 Ma Paleozoic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 478 - 468 Ma Ordovician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Endocerida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | well-developed (based on Cephalopoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | carnivore (based on Endocerida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Endocerida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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/Cotteroceras |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Cotteroceras buttsi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cotteroceras compressum ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician | 478 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician | |
| Cotteroceras cullisoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cotteroceras gregeri species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1936 | Cotteroceras Ulrich and Foerste |
| 1964 | Cotteroceras Teichert et al. p. 166 |
| 2008 | Cotteroceras Kröger and Landing |
| 2011 | Cotteroceras Evans |
References
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!
