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Prolecanitoidea ✝
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Rank | superfamily (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Prolecanitida : Prolecanitoidea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 365 - 361 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 269 - 265 Ma Permian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | A. Hyatt. 1884. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22:253-338 |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Daraelitidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 135 | 339 Ma Carboniferous | 269 Ma Permian | |
Prolecanitidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 167 | 365 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 326 Ma Carboniferous |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1884 | Prolecanitaceae Hyatt |
1989 | Prolecanitaceae Leonova p. 77 |
2006 | Prolecanitaceae Korn |
2009 | Prolecanitoidea Furnish et al. p. 186 |
2016 | Prolecanitaceae Korn and Sudar p. 216 |
2017 | Prolecanitoidea Zhou p. 19 |
References
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!