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Beudanticeras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae

Taxonomy

Beudanticeras was named by Hitzell (1902) [Sepkoski's age data: K Apti-u K Albi-u]. Its type is Ammonites beudanti. It is the type genus of Beudanticeratinae.

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Warren and Stelck (1960); to Desmoceratidae by Whitehouse (1926), Whitehouse (1928), Stoyanow (1949), Henderson (1990) and Geyer et al. (1997); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); to Beudanticeratinae by Förster (1975), Renz (1982), Alabushev (1995), Wright et al. (1996), Szives (2007), Kennedy and Klinger (2012), Robert et al. (2018) and El Qot (2018); and to Beudanticeratidae by Latil et al. (2023).

Species

B. (Beudanticeras), B. beudanti, B. diabloense, B. flindersi, B. haydeni, B. ingente, B. mullerriedi, B. robustum, B. sphaerotum, B. sutherlandbrowni, B. sutherlandi, B. victoris

Species lacking formal opinion data

B. daintreei, B. dupini, B. laevigatum, B. santaecrucis

Synonyms

Rapidoplacenticeras was named by Alabushev (1988).

It was synonymized subjectively with Beudanticeras by Kennedy and Klinger (2012) and Latil et al. (2023).

It was assigned to Rapidoplacenticeratinae by Alabushev (1995).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1902	Beudanticeras Hitzell
1926	Beudanticeras Whitehouse p. 219
1928	Beudanticeras Whitehouse p. 201
1949	Beudanticeras Stoyanow p. 127
1960	Beudanticeras Warren and Stelck p. 24
1975	Beudanticeras Förster p. 213
1982	Beudanticeras Renz p. 22
1988	Rapidoplacenticeras Alabushev
1990	Beudanticeras Henderson p. 112
1995	Beudanticeras Alabushev p. 122
1995	Rapidoplacenticeras Alabushev p. 132
1996	Beudanticeras Wright et al. p. 80
1997	Beudanticeras Geyer et al. p. 224
2002	Beudanticeras Sepkoski
2007	Beudanticeras Szives p. 54
2012	Beudanticeras Kennedy and Klinger p. 57
2018	Beudanticeras El Qot p. 155
2018	Beudanticeras Robert et al. p. 7
2023	Beudanticeras Latil et al. p. 74

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea	()
order	Ammonitida
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Desmoceratoidea	(Zittel 1895)
family	Beudanticeratidae	(Breistroffer 1953)
genus	Beudanticeras	Hitzell 1902

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Beudanticeras Hitzell 1902

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†Ammonites beudanti mitchelli Etheridge 1872

Subg. †Beudanticeras (Beudanticeras) Hitzel 1902

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†Beudanticeras (Beudanticeras) convergens Jacob 1908

†Beudanticeras beudanti Brongniart 1822

†Beudanticeras diabloense Anderson 1902

†Beudanticeras flindersi McCoy 1865

†Beudanticeras haydeni Gabb 1864

†Beudanticeras ingente Whitehouse 1928

†Beudanticeras mullerriedi Humphrey 1949

†Beudanticeras robustum Warren 1947

†Beudanticeras sphaerotum Seeley 1866

†Beudanticeras sutherlandbrowni McLearn 1972

†Beudanticeras sutherlandi Etheridge 1872

†Beudanticeras victoris Stoyanow 1949

Invalid names: Rapidoplacenticeras Alabushev 1988 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	5	34.3	13.0	54.0	41.6	15.3
shell diameter	5	62.9	24.0	95.0	80.0	27.4
shell inflation	5	8.15	3.10	15.2	8.50	5.41

Composition:

aragoniteo

Environment:

marinec

Locomotion:

fast-movingo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2005-01-28 02:27:03

Modified:

2009-10-08 14:14:55

Source: o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 122.46000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections (96 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Berriasian - Turonian	145.0 - 89.8	USA (California)	B. haydeni (216097)
Aptian	125.0 - 113.0	USA (Arizona)	B. victoris (64991)
Late/Upper Aptian	122.46 - 113.0	Hungary	B. convergens (226273)
Late/Upper Aptian	122.46 - 113.0	Venezuela (Sucre)	B. mullerriedi (87916)
Late/Upper Aptian - Early/Lower Albian	122.46 - 109.0	Mexico (Sonora)	B. sp. (191940)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Madagascar	B. ambanjabense (98234 98268) B. dupini (98244) B. sp. (98227)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Canada (British Columbia)	B. sp. (87663 87664) Proplacenticeras sutherlandbrowni (87477 87478)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Canada (Northwest Territories)	B. robustum (87435)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Australia (Queensland)	Ammonites flindersi, Ammonites sutherlandi (222684) Ammonites sutherlandi (222683)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	United Kingdom (England)	B. laevigatum (1832)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	USA (California)	B. haydeni (83769) B. sp. (225798)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Egypt	B. beudanti (176860) Desmoceras beudanti (171276)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Antarctica	B. sp. (83557)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Greenland	B. sp. (160927)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	Mexico (Coahuila de Zaragoza)	Desmoceras beudanti (88253)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	Madagascar	B. besairiei (98217) B. sp. (98226)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	France	B. convergens (56561)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	United Kingdom (England)	B. newetoni (1863) B. sp. (1827)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	Argentina	B. laevigatum (64162)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	Peru (Cajamarca)	B. chimuense (88520) B. sp. (88516)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	Switzerland	B. sp. (197617)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	Dominican Republic	B. laevigatum (65128)
Early/Lower Albian - Late/Upper Albian	112.03 - 99.6	France	B. santaecrucis, B. laevigatum, B. sp., B. beudanti, B. convergens (58861) B. sp. (57922)
Middle Albian	109.0 - 105.3	Russian Federation	B. sp. (160389 160390)
Middle Albian	109.0 - 105.3	France	B. laevigatum (56540)
Middle Albian	109.0 - 105.3	Switzerland	B. beudanti (58111)
Middle Albian	109.0 - 105.3	Canada (Nunavut)	B. beudanti (87593)
Middle Albian	109.0 - 105.3	USA (California)	B. haydeni (216380 216385) B. sp. (216382 216383)
Middle Albian	109.0 - 105.3	Madagascar	B. dupini (98267)
Middle Albian - Late/Upper Albian	109.0 - 99.6	Switzerland	B. beudanti (197618)
Middle Albian - Late/Upper Albian	109.0 - 99.6	United Kingdom (England)	B. sphaerotum (138713)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Russian Federation	Rapidoplacenticeras sutherlandbrowni (169555)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Austria	B. sp. (232174) B. sp., B. beudanti (232173)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Australia (Northern Territory)	B. sp. (70245)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Iran	B. sp., B. beudanti (145190)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	USA (California)	Ammonites haydenii (230748) B. haydeni (1784 216386 216392 230741 230742 230743 230744 230745 230746 230747)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Germany (Brandenburg)	B. sp. (126922)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Netherlands Antilles	B. sp. (82385)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	France	B. beudanti (56523 56551 56552 56669 56680 56848 58122 58125 58126 58246 58359 58363 58364 58423 58431 58527 58533 58560)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Australia (Queensland)	B. daintreei (83923) B. flindersi (83921) B. flindersi, B. mitchelli (83922) B. ingente (83937) B. sp. (35273) B. sutherlandi (83924)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Angola	B. beudanti (83840)
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian	105.3 - 93.5	USA (California)	B. haydeni (83775)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	USA (California)	B. haydeni (44203)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	France	B. convergens (58935)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Russian Federation	Rapidoplacenticeras sutherlandbrowni (169560)
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	USA (California)	B. haydeni (158089)