Perisphinctoidea
Perisphinctoidea Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Suborder: | †Ammonitina |
Superfamily: | †Perisphinctoidea Steinmann, 1890 |
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Perisphinctoidea, formerly Perisphinctaceae, is a superfamily of Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) to Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) ammonites, commonly with evolute shells with strong ribbing that typically divides about mid flank before crossing the venter.[1]
Classification
Some 18 families have been recognized in the Perisphinctoidea. The following is based on Donovan et al. 1981[2] with modification from the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (1957)[1]
- Perisphinctidae: Middle and Upper Jurassic root stock, derived from the Stephanoceratidae
(Middle Jurassic direct derivatives of the Perisphinctidae)
(early Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) derivatives of Perisphinctidae)
(mid Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) derivatives of the Ataxioceratidae)
(late Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) derivatives of Perisphinctidae)
- Simoceratidae
- Himalayitidae
- Olcostephanidae
- Holcodiscidae (indirect, from Olcostaphanidae)
(Lower Cretaceous Perisphinctoidea (Berriasan - Hauterivien)
- Polytichitidae [=Craspeditidae] (derived from Dorsoplanitidae)
- Berriasellidae (derived from Ataxioceratidae)
- Neocomitidae(derived from Berriasellidae)
- Oosterellidae (Hauterivian derivative of the Neocomitidae)
References
- ^ a b Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
- ^ Donovan, Callomon and Howarth 1981 Classification of the Jurassic Ammonitina; Systematics Association. [1]
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