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Actinoceras ✝

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Description

Actinoceras is the principal and root genus of the Actinoceratidae, a major family in the Actinocerida, that lived during the Middle and Late Ordovician.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinoceras, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8869940	https://www.gbif.org/species/8869940
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	12657	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=12657

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Actinoceratidae : Actinoceras

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Actinocerida : Actinoceratidae : Actinoceras

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	Actinocerida	Teichert 1933
family	Actinoceratidae	Saeman 1853
genus	Actinoceras	Bronn 1835

Scientific Name

Actinoceras Bronn, 1835

Name Published In

Bronn, H. G. (1834-1838). Lethaea geognostica oder Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der für die Gebirgs-Formationen bezeichnendsten Versteinerungen. Vol. 1, pp. 1-544 (pp. 1-96 [1834]; 97-192 [1835]; 193-288, 384-480 [1836]; 481-544 [1838 (?1837)]. Vol. 2. pp. 545-1346 + 4 pp. unpaginated errata (pp. 545-768 [1837]; 769-1346 [1838]); Atlas, 47 pl. [1837]. Stuttgart, Schweitzerbart.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Actinoceras	genus	belongs to Actinoceratidae	stated with evidence	Strand, 1934
Actinoceras	genus	belongs to Actinocerida	stated with evidence	Flower, 1957
Actinoceras	genus	belongs to Actinoceratidae	stated with evidence	Teichert et al., 1964
Actinoceras	genus	belongs to Actinoceratidae	stated without evidence	Frey, 1995
Actinoceras	genus	belongs to Actinocerida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

479 - 466 Ma
Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

339 - 336 Ma
Carboniferous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Actinocerida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Actinocerida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Actinocerida)

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/Actinoceras

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Actinoceras abortivum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Actinoceras adnatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras aequale ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras altopontense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras amundseni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras anticostiense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Actinoceras arcanum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras arcuanotum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Actinoceras arcuonotum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras backi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras beaumonti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras bellefontense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras beudanti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras bigsbyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras blainvillei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras caneyense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras capitolinum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras carletonense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Actinoceras cinctum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras circulare species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras concavum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras cordieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras cricki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras curdsvillense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Actinoceras dufresnoyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras gamachense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras glencoense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras glenni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras gradatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras huronioides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras incantatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras insulaenigrae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Actinoceras jessaminense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras kentuckiense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras lambei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Actinoceras lentiexpandum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras lesperancei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	443 Ma Silurian
Actinoceras libanum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras lindenense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras lyoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras margaretae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras mutabile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras richardsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras ruedemanni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras saffordi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras serum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras sinclairi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Actinoceras tatei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras tennesseense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras tenuifilum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Actinoceras winstoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Orthoceras anticostense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1837	Actinoceras Bronn
1934	Actinoceras Strand
1957	Actinoceras Flower
1964	Actinoceras Teichert et al. p. 204
1995	Actinoceras Frey p. P36
2002	Actinoceras Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Strand T. (1934) The Upper Ordovician Cephalopods of the Oslo Area, Norsk geologiske Tidsskrift 14, 1-117

Flower R. H. (1957) The Ordovician Development of the Actinoceratida, with notes on Actinoceroid Morphology and Ordovician Stratigraphy, State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 2, 1-59

Teichert C., Kummel B., et al (1964) Cephalopoda - general features - Endoceratoidea - Actinoceratoidea - Nautiloidea - Bactritoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology K 3, 1-519

Frey R. C. (1995) Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P, 1-126

Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. - via World Register of Marine Species

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Lethaea Geogn., 1 (2) - 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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