Hildoceratoidea

Hildoceratoidea
Temporal range: early Middle Jurassic
Harpoceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ammonitina
Superfamily: Hildoceratoidea
Hyatt, 1867
Families

Hildoceratoidea, formerly Hildocerataceae, is a superfamily of compressed or planulate ammonites, some tending to develop acute outer rims; generally with arcuate or sigmoidal ribs. Aptichus were found in place are double-valved.[2]

Hildoceratoidea is an upper Lower- to lower Middle Jurassic group belonging to the Ammonitina that unites the Hildoceratidae, Hammatoceratidae, Graphoceratidae, and Sonniniidae.[2] In some taxonomies the name Phymatoceratidae is substituted for the Hammatoceratidae[3]

Hildoceratidae, which is the ancestral family, is derived from the Acanthopleuroceratinae, a subfamily in the Eoderoceratacean family, Polyorphitidae. The Stephanocerataceae, Perisphinctaceae, and Haplocerataceae have their source in the Hammitoceratidae which is derived from the Hildoceratidae .[2]

References

  1. Kovács, Z.; Géczy, B. (2008). "Upper Toarcian – Middle Aalenian (Jurassic) Erycitinae SPATH (Ammonitina) from the Gerecse Mts, Hungary" (PDF). 125th Anniversary of the Department of Palaeontology at Budapest University – A Jubilee Volume Hantkeniana 6: 57–108.
  2. 1 2 3 Arkell et al, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L Ammonoidea, (1956)
  3. Taxonomicon(Hildocerataceae)|
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