Biology:Perisphinctoidea

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Short description: Extinct superfamily of ammonites

Perisphinctoidea
Temporal range: Bajocian–Barremian
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ammonitina
Superfamily: Perisphinctoidea
Steinmann, 1890
Families

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Synonyms
  • Perisphinctaceae

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 16 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]

(Middle Jurassic direct derivatives of the Perisphinctidae)

(early Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) derivatives of Perisphinctidae)

(mid Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) derivatives of the Ataxioceratidae)

  • Dorsoplanitidae
  • Virgatitidae

(late Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) derivatives of Perisphinctidae)

(Lower Cretaceous Perisphinctoidea (Berriasan - Hauterivien)

  • Berriasellidae (derived from Ataxioceratidae)(now considered a subfamily of Neocomitidae)
  • Polytichitidae [=Craspeditidae] (derived from Dorsoplanitidae)
  • Neocomitidae (derived from Berriasellidae)(now placed in the superfamily Endemoceratoidea)
  • Oosterellidae (Hauterivian derivative of the Neocomitidae)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. 
  2. Donovan, Callomon and Howarth 1981 Classification of the Jurassic Ammonitina; Systematics Association. "Archived copy". http://www.rogov.zwz.ru/Donovan,%20Callomon,%201981_J%20Ammon.PDF. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7168769 entry