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Thamboceras ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4627677	https://www.gbif.org/species/4627677
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	15722	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15722

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Thamboceratidae : Thamboceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Thamboceratidae : Thamboceras

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	Ammonoidea
order	Ammonitida	Hyatt 1889
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Stephanoceratoidea
family	Thamboceratidae	Arkell 1952
genus	Thamboceras	Douvillé 1916

Scientific Name

Thamboceras Douvillé, 1916

Name Published In

Mém. Acad. Sci. Inst. France, (2) 54

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thamboceras	genus	belongs to Thamboceratidae	stated with evidence	Arkell, 1952
Thamboceras	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

172 - 168 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

170 - 168 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ammonoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. Douvillé. 1916. Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez. Mémoire de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris 54(2):1-184

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Thamboceras mirabile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic
Thamboceras mirum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1916	Thamboceras Douvillé p. 21
1952	Thamboceras Arkell p. 278
1957	Thamboceras Arkell et al. p. 290
2002	Thamboceras Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Douvillé H. (1916) Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez, Mémoire de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris 54 2, 1-184

Arkell W. J. (1952) Jurassic ammonites from Jebel Tuwaiq, central Arabia, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 236, 241-313

Arkell W. J., Furnish W. M., et al (1957) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4, Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea, 1-490

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

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

Mém. Acad. Sci. Inst. France, (2) 54 - 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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