Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: Nautiloidea
Ordo: Nautilida
Subordo: Nautilina
Superfamilia: †Aipocerataceae
Familiae: Aipoceratidae – Scyphoceratidae – Solenochilidae
Name
Aipocerataceae
References
The Aipoceratoidea are a superfamily within the order Nautilida characterized by rapidly expanding, smooth to ribbed, cyrtoconic to coiled shells with rounded or sometimes dorsally flattened or impressed whorls, nearly straight sutures, and a ventral and marginal siphuncle. Septal necks are orthochoanitic ventrally and orthochoanitic or cyrtochoanitic dorsally.[1]
The Aipoceratoidea are the Solenochilida according to Flower[2] and are the Solenocheilaceae which Shimansky included in his Rutoceratina minus the Litogyroceratidae which the Treatise includes in the Rutoceratidae (Tainocerataceae)[clarification needed]
The Aipoceratoidea include three families and at least nine genera. The families are the Aipoceratidae, Solenochilidae, and Scyphoceratidae. The Aipoceratidae are represented by the loosely coiled, compressed and gyroconic Aipoceras from the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) of Europe and North America; the Solenochilidae are represented by the tightly coiled cosmopolitan Solenochilis from the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) to the Lower Permian, with spines projecting straight out laterally from the umbilical region; and the Scyphoceratidae are represented by Scyphoceras from the Lower Permian of the Ural Mountains, which has a ribbed shell and a relatively small and sharply curved phragmocone.
The derivation of the Aipoceratoidea is somewhat tenuous. Kummel[1] (1964, K385 fig. 280) shows a tentative connection to the Rutoceratidae in the Devonian. Flower[2] also shows a tentative connection but from the equivalent Solenochilida to the Barrndeocerida. Shimansky, though, shows a direct connection from the Solenocheilaceae to the Rutoceratidae.
References
Kummel, B. 1964. Nautiloidea - Natilida; Treatise on Inertebrate Paleontology part K; Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
see also Paleobiology Database Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
Flower & Kummel 1950. A Classification of the Nautiloidea; Journal of Paleontology, V.24, n.5, pp604–616, Sept 1950.
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