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Ochetoceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae

Taxonomy
Ochetoceras was named as a genus. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Ammonites (Ochetoceras) by Dietlen (1911).

It was assigned to Ammonites by Dietlen (1911); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ochetoceratinae by Arkell et al. (1957), Schlegelmilch (1994), Baudouin et al. (2011) and Sato and Yamada (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Ammonites (Ochetoceras) Dietlen
1951Canaliculites Jeannet p. 90
1957Ochetoceras Arkell et al. p. 278
1994Ochetoceras Schlegelmilch p. 47
2002Ochetoceras Sepkoski
2011Ochetoceras Baudouin et al. p. 646
2014Ochetoceras Sato and Yamada p. 31

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderHaploceratina
superfamilyHaploceratoidea(Zittel 1884)
familyOppeliidaeBonarelli 1894
subfamilyOchetoceratinaeSpath 1928
genusOchetoceras

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.

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Invalid names: Ammonites (Ochetoceras) uracensis Dietlen 1911 [synonym]
†Ochetoceras dentosum Quenstedt 1887
†Ochetoceras frickense Jeannet 1951
†Ochetoceras irregulare Berckhemer and Hölder 1959
†Ochetoceras marantianum d'Orbigny 1850
†Ochetoceras mexicanum Burckhardt 1912
Invalid names: Canaliculites Jeannet 1951 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height1127.414.046.030.010.7
shell diameter1152.227.579.055.016.8
shell inflation117.635.5010.08.001.78

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 Jurassic to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 161.50000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (57 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3India O. secula (68644)
Early/Lower Callovian164.7 - 161.2Chile (Antofagasta) O. sp. (170680 172173)
Late/Upper Callovian164.7 - 161.2Chile (Antofagasta) O. sp. (172174)
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Spain O. canaliculatus, O. sp. (67867) O. sp., O. hispidum, O. hispidiforme (67866)
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Chile (Antofagasta) O. sp. (172175)
Late/Upper Jurassic161.5 - 145.0France O. canaliculatum (8609) O. canaliferum (198558)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Switzerland Canaliculites argoviensis (171586) O. dentosum (171625) O. frickense (171491 171561)
Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Poland O. canaliculatum, O. hispidum (91906)
Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France O. bassae (12304) O. basseae, O. sp. (13126) O. marantianum (12305 12306 12307) O. sp. (62727 62728)
Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Spain O. marantiamunsemifalcatum (142598 142601 142603 142606 142607) O. raixense (142592)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Switzerland O. canaliculatum (171666 171668 171676 171689) O. canaliculatum, O. hispidum (171667) O. canaliculatum, O. mexicanum (171677)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Spain O. raixense (142588 142589 142590)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France O. canaliculatum (12293 12982 13112 13118 13124) O. canaliculatum/hispidum (12291 12292 12294) O. sp. A, O. sp. B, O. sp. C, O. sp. D, O. sp. E, O. sp. F, O. sp. G, O. sp. H (163585)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Germany O. canaliculatum (62308) O. henrici (62305) O. sp. (62307)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Japan O. sp., O. irregulare (182856 182864)
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian161.2 - 150.8Spain O. sp. (68307)
Kimmeridgian - Oxfordian157.3 - 157.3Yemen (Wadi Jahar) O. sp. (2551)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1Mexico (San Luis Potosí) O. neohispanicum (114686)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1Canada (British Columbia) O. manningense (114690)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany (Baden-Württemberg) O. zio, Granulochetoceras ornatum (154138)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Bayern) O. zio (13412 13414)