Adrianitidae

Adrianites, from here.

Belongs within: Ammonoidea.

The Adrianitidae are a group of discoidal to globular ammonoids known from the Upper Carboniferous to the Middle Permian (Miller et al. 1957).

Characters (from Miller et al. 1957): Discoidal to globular conchs with variable umbilici. Goniatitic suture with ten to thirty lobes that tend to be subequal.

<==Adrianitidae [Adrianitoidea] ZL04
    |  i. s.: Crimites RR79
    |         Texoceras texanum RR79, P68
    |         Doryceras spinosum RR79
    |         Aricoceras RR79
    |         Palermites RR79
    |         Epadrianites timorense RR79
    |         Basleoceras RR79
    |         Pseudoagathiceras RR79
    |         Sizilites RR79
    `--Adrianitinae ZL04
         |--Adrianites SLE01
         |    |--A. adamsi P68
         |    |--A. elegans SLE01
         |    `--A. newelli Miller & Furnish 1940 P68
         `--Neocrimites Ruzhencev 1940 [incl. Metacrimites Ruzhencev 1950] ZL04
              |--*N. fredericksi (Emel’yancev 1929) [=Adrianites fredericksi] ZL04
              |--N. meridionalis [=Adrianites (Neocrimites) meridionalis] F71
              |--N. nalivkini (Toumanskaya 1949) [=Adrianites nalivkini, Waagenina nalivkini] ZL04
              |--N. newelli RR79
              `--N. plummeri RR79

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[F71] Fletcher, H. O. 1971. Catalogue of type specimens of fossils in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Australian Museum Memoir 13: 1–167.

Miller, A. K., W. M. Furnish & O. H. Schindewolf. 1957. Paleozoic Ammonoidea. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt L. Mollusca 4. Cephalopoda: Ammonoidea pp. L11–L79. Geological Society of America, and University of Kansas Press.

[P68] Purnell, L. R. 1968. Catalog of the type specimens of invertebrate fossils. Part I: Paleozoic Cephalopoda. United States National Museum Bulletin 262: 1–198.

[RR79] Ross, C. A., & J. R. P. Ross. 1979. Permian. In: Robison, R. A., & C. Teichert (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt A. Introduction. Fossilisation (Taphonomy), Biogeography and Biostratigraphy pp. A291–A350. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).

[SLE01] Sone, M., M. S. Leman & M. Ehino. 2001. Middle Permian cephalopods from central Peninsular Malaysia: implications for faunal migration through the southern Tethys. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 19: 805–814.

[ZL04] Zhou, Z., & M. Liengjarern. 2004. Lower Permian perrinitid ammonoid faunas from Thailand. Journal of Paleontology 78: 317–339.