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Echioceratidae ✝

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Echioceras sp.

Charmouth Beach, Charmouth, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
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Echioceras sp.

Charmouth Beach, Charmouth, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
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Echioceras sp.

Charmouth Beach, Charmouth, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
Description

Echioceratidae is an extinct family of ammonites that lived during Sinemurian stage of Early Jurassic.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echioceratidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4627071https://www.gbif.org/species/4627071
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)204850https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=204850
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Echioceratidae
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Echioceratidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMolluscaLinnaeus 1758
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea
orderAmmonitidaHyatt 1889
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPsiloceratoidea
familyEchioceratidaeBuckman 1913
Scientific NameEchioceratidae
Name Published InType Ammonites, 2: v
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Echioceratidaefamilybelongs to Psilocerataceaestated with evidenceBlau, 1998
Echioceratidaefamilybelongs to Psilocerataceaestated without evidenceGeczy and Meister, 2007
Echioceratidaefamilybelongs to Psiloceratoideastated with evidenceBlau et al., 2008
Echioceratidaefamilybelongs to Ammonitinastated without evidenceLukeneder and Lukeneder, 2018
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)43
First Recorded Appearance201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance197 - 174 Ma
Jurassic
Motilityfast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)
Visionwell-developed (based on Cephalopoda)
Dietcarnivore (based on Ammonoidea)
Taphonomyaragonite (based on Ammonoidea)
Primary Reference (PBDB)B. Geczy and C. Meister. 2007. Les ammonites du Sinémurien et du Pliensbachien inférieur de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie). Revue de Paléobiologie 26(1):137-305
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echioceratidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Echioceras ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		25201 Ma
Early Jurassic		197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Gagaticeras ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		3199 Ma
Early Jurassic		197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Leptechioceras ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		44197 Ma
Early Jurassic		197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Orthechioceras ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1197 Ma
Early Jurassic		197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Palaeoechioceras ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		11199 Ma
Early Jurassic		197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Paltechioceras ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		79201 Ma
Early Jurassic		197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Plesechioceras ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		28197 Ma
Early Jurassic		197 Ma
Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1913Echioceratidae Buckman
1998Echioceratidae Blau p. 205
2000Echioceratidae Blau et al. p. 261
2007Echioceratidae Geczy and Meister
2008Echioceratidae Blau et al. p. 405
2013Echioceratidae Howarth p. 28
2018Echioceratidae Lukeneder and Lukeneder p. 102

References

Geczy B., Meister C. (2007) Les ammonites du Sinémurien et du Pliensbachien inférieur de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie), Revue de Paléobiologie 26 1, 137-305
Blau J. (1998) Monographie der Ammoniten des Obersinemuriums (Lotharingium, Lias) der Lienzer Dolomiten (Österreich): Biostratigraphie, Systematik und Paläobiogeographie, Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 17, 177-285
Blau J., Meister C., et al (2000) Upper Sinemurian and lower Pliensbachian ammonite faunas from Herford-Diebrock area (NW Germany), Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74, 259-280
Blau J., Meister C., et al (2008) A new fossiliferous site of Lower Liassic (Upper Sinemurian) marine sediments from the southern Sierra Madre Oriental (Puebla, Mexico): ammonite fauna, biostratigraphy, and description of Ectocentrites hillebrandti new species, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 25, 402-407
Howarth M. K. (2013) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea, Treatise Online 57, 1-139
Lukeneder P., Lukeneder A. (2018) Sinemurian biostratigraphy of the Tannscharten section near Reichraming (Lower Jurassic, Schneeberg Syncline, Northern Calcareous Alps), Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 111 1, 092-110 doi:10.17738/ajes.2018.0007
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 14 Addition to the Official List of family- group names in Zoology or, as the case may be, to the Official Index of Rejected and invalid family-group names in Zoology of the family-group names Involved in the applications relating to the names of ammonites published in volume 2 of the Bulletin of Zoological nomenclature.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10(18), 463-480 (1955) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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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