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Woosteroceras ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4627839	https://www.gbif.org/species/4627839
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	12431	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=12431

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ellesmeroceratidae : Woosteroceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ellesmerocerida : Ellesmeroceratidae : Woosteroceras

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	Woosteroceras	Ulrich Foerste Miller & Unklesbay 1944

Scientific Name

Woosteroceras Ulrich, Foerste, Miller & Unklesbay, 1944

Name Published In

Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Amer., 58

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Woosteroceras	genus	belongs to Stemtonoceratidae	stated with evidence	Ulrich et al., 1944
Woosteroceras	genus	belongs to Cyclostomiceratidae	stated without evidence	Unklesbay and Young, 1956
Woosteroceras	genus	belongs to Ellesmeroceratidae	stated with evidence	Flower, 1964
Woosteroceras	genus	belongs to Ellesmerocerida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

485 - 478 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

485 - 478 Ma
Paleozoic

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)

E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and A. K. Miller, W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Woosteroceras chepultepecense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Woosteroceras cherokeense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Woosteroceras flexiseptatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Woosteroceras percurvatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Woosteroceras spirale ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Woosteroceras trempealeauense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	485 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Woosteroceras trempeleauense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1944	Woosteroceras Ulrich et al.
1956	Woosteroceras Unklesbay and Young p. 489
1964	Woosteroceras Flower p. 75
1964	Woosteroceras Teichert et al. p. 146
2002	Woosteroceras Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Ulrich E. O., Foerste A. F., et al (1944) Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary, Geological Society of America Special Paper 58, 1-226

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

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

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

Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Amer., 58 - 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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