After Clarkson, 1998 [based on House, 1988], Nied´zwiedzki, Salamon & Boczarowski, 2001, Hsiung, 2002– [“Les Fossiles”] and Work & Boardman, 2003
This is not for a long way a perfect presentation of diversity and sheer numbers of Ceratitid taxons. If any one has additional material and phylogeny and species... Please contact me... I simply don't have time to cypher out all of them... :-[
<==o †Ceratitida (keratiitit; ceratites) |?- †Beneckeia |?- †Cladiscites |?- †Discoceratites |?- †Joannites |?- †Ptychites |?- †Tirolites |-- †Otoceratoidea [Otocerataceae] `==o †Xenodiscoidea [Xenodiscaceae] |-- †Dinaritoidea [Dinaritaceae] |-- †Lobitoidea [Lobitaceae] |-- †Megaphyllitoidea [Megaphyllitaceae] |--+-- †Phylloceratida | `--+-- †Lytoceratida | `--+-- †Ammonitida | `-- †Ancyloceratida `==o †Noritoidea [Noritaceae] |--o †Arcestoidea [Arcestaceae] | `-- †Arcestes |--o †Pinacoceratoidea [Pinacocerataceae] | `-- †Pinacoceras |==o †Ceratitoidea [Ceratitaceae] | |--o †Ceratitidae Mojsisovics, 1879 | | `--o †Ceratites De Haan, 1825 | | |--o †(Acanthoceratites) Schrammen, 1928 | | | |--o †C. (A.) armatus Philippi, 1901 [C. (Progonoceratites) armatus Philippi, 1901; C. (Progonoceratites) armatus armatus Philippi, 1901] | | | | `-- †C. (A.) a. armatus Philippi, 1901 [C. (Progonoceratites) armatus armatus Philippi, 1901] | | | `--o †C. (A.) spinosus Philippi, 1901 | | | |-- †C. (A.) S. praespinosus Riedel, 1916 | | | |-- †C. (A.) s. spinosus Philippi, 1901 | | | |-- †C. (A.) s. postspinosus Riedel, 1916 | | | `-- †C. (A.) s. penndorfi Rothe, 1955 | | |--o †(Ceratites) | | | `-- †C. (C.) nodosus (Schlotheim, 1820) | | |--o †(Doloceratites) | | | |-- †C. (D.) humilis Philippi, 1901 | | | |-- †C. (D.) robustus (Riedel, 1916) | | | |--o †C. (D.) muensteri | | | | `-- †C. (A.) m. riedeli (Stolley, 1916) | | | `--o †C. (D.) pulcher | | | `-- †C. (D.) p. angustus Wenger, 1957 | | |--o †(Opheoceratites) | | | |--o †C. (O.) compressus Philippi, 1901 | | | | `-- †C. (O.) c. compressus Philippi, 1901 | | | `--o †C. (O.) evolutus Philippi, 1901 | | | |-- †C. (O.) e. evolutus Philippi, 1901 | | | `-- †C. (O.) e. parabolicus Wenger, 1957 | | |--o †(Gymnoceratites) | | | `-- †C. (G.) enodis (Quenstedt, 1845) | | `--o †(Progonoceratites) | | |--o †C. (P.) atavus | | | |-- †C. (P.) a. atavus | | | |-- †C. (P.) a. discus (Riedel, 1916) | | | `-- †C. (P.) a. sequens (Riedel, 1916) | | `-- †C. (P.) philippii (Riedel, 1916) | |-- †Trachyceratoidea [Trachycerataceae] | |-- †Clydonitoidea [Clydonitaceae] | |-- †Choristoceratoidea [Choristocerataceae] | `-- †Tropitoidea [Tropitaceae] `==o †Danubitoidea [Danubitaceae] `-- †Nathorstitoidea [Nathorstitaceae]
Reference(s):
- Clarkson, E. N. K., 1998: Invertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–Blackwell Science, 1998, xvi-452 - Hsiung, D., 2002: Ammonoidea.
–iNet: Denis Hsiung's Les Fossiles: http://www.fossiles.be/ammo1.htm - Landman, N. H., Johnson, R. O. & Edwards, L. E., 2004: Cephalopods from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary interval on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, with a description of the highest Ammonite zones in North America.
Part 2. Northeastern Monmouth County, New Jersey.
–Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History: #287, pp. 1-107 - Nied´zwiedzki, R., Salamon, M. & Boczarowski, A., 2001: New data on the ceratites from the Upper Muschelkalk in Holy Cross Mountains (SE Poland).
–Freiberger Forschungshefte: #492, pp. 85-98 - Work, D. M. & Boardman, D. R., 2003: Mapesites, a new Upper Pennsylvanian (Lower Virgilian) ammonoid from Kansas.
–Journal of Paleontology: Vol. 77, #6, pp. 1195-1197