Cheiloceratidae

Cheiloceratidae
Cheiloceratidae
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Superfamily: †Prionocerataceae
Family: †Cheiloceratidae
Frech, 1897
Subfamilies

Cheiloceratidae is a family of ammonoid cephalopods from the Upper Devonian included in the goniatitid suborder Tornoceratina. Ammonoids are an extinct group of cephalopods closely related to modern coleoids such as squids and octopuses as well as extinct belemnoids but only distantly related to Nautiloids such as the modern Nautilus.

Taxonomy

The taxonomy of the Cheiloceratidae varies according to the perception of different researchers over time and can be considered a work in progress. That presented in the taxobox is simply one of the more recent.

Cheiloceratidae is the larger of two families included in the Cheilocerataceae in the 1957 Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, Mesozoic Ammonoidea, the other being the Tornoceratidae.[1] The Cheiloceratidae (M,F,&S) range from the Upper Devonian to the Middle Permian and includes 4 subfamilies. The Cheiloceratinae is essentially the Cheiloceratidae of Saunders et al[2] but includes Dimeroceras, the basis for the Dimeroceratidae and ultimately the Dimeroceratoidea (ending revised) The other three are the Raymondiceratinae, Sporadoceratinae, and Immatoceratinae. The Immatoceratinae includes Prionoceras, the basis for the Prionocerataceae of Korn (2006).[3]

The Russian Osnovy Paleontologii, by Bogoslovsky et al, [4] placed the Cheiloceratidae, in the sense of the Cheiloceratinae of the Treatise, in the superfamily Dimeroceratoidea (ex Dimerocerataceae) which is included in the suborder Tornoceratina. Sister families to the Cheiloceratidae in the Dimeroceratoidea [4] are the Dimeroceratidae, Phenacoceratidae, Prolobitidae, and Sinotitidae.

Saunders et al[2] includes the Cheiloceratidae in the suborder Tornoceratina along with the Maenioceratidae, Tornoceratidae, Sinotitidae, Posttornoceratidae, Sporadoceratidae, and Dimeroceratidae; without the use of a superfamily.

In the more recent taxonomy attributed to Dieter Korn in 2006[3] the Cheiloceratidae is included in the Prionocerataceae and includes two subfamilies, the Cheiloceratinae and Nehdenitinae.

See also

References

  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. ^ a b Saunders, Ward, & Nickolaeva 1993, Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material [1]
  3. ^ a b The Paleobiology Database 10/21/09
  4. ^ a b GONIAT-online 10/21/09


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