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Myloceras ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7235185	https://www.gbif.org/species/7235185
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	15220	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15220

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Labeceratidae : Myloceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Labeceratidae : Myloceras

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	Ancyloceratina	Wiedmann 1966
superfamily	Ancyloceratoidea
family	Labeceratidae	Spath 1925
genus	Myloceras	Zhuravleva 1972

Scientific Name

Myloceras Zhuravleva, 1972

Name Published In

Trudy paleont. Inst. 134

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Myloceras	genus	belongs to Aleteceratidae	stated with evidence	Whitehouse, 1926
Myloceras	genus	belongs to Labeceratinae	stated with evidence	Förster, 1975
Myloceras	genus	belongs to Labeceratidae	stated without evidence	Henderson, 1990
Myloceras	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

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)

F. W. Whitehouse. 1926. The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of Eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3):195-242

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Myloceras (Calliscaphites) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras (Ellipsoceras) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras (Flindersites) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		8	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras ammonoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras andinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myloceras auritulum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras baccatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myloceras cornucopium ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras davidi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras expansum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myloceras flindersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myloceras intermedium species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myloceras joffrei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras orbiculus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Myloceras serotinum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1926	Myloceras Whitehouse
1950	Abadieceras Collignon p. 81
1975	Myloceras Förster p. 181
1978	Myloceras McNamara p. 232
1990	Myloceras Henderson p. 118
2002	Myloceras Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Whitehouse F. W. (1926) The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of Eastern Australia, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8 3, 195-242

Förster R. (1975) Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman, Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B 12, 3-324

McNamara K. J. (1978) Myloceras (Ammonoidea) from the Albian of central Queensland, Alcheringa 2 3, 231-242

Henderson R. A. (1990) Late Albian ammonites from the Northern Territory, Australia, Alcheringa 14, 109-148

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

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - 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

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

Trudy paleont. Inst. 134 - 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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