Perisphinctoidea

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

See text

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 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]

(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)

(Lower Cretaceous Perisphinctoidea (Berriasan - Hauterivien)

References

  1. 1 2 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.
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