Popanoceratidae

Popanoceras bowmani, from here.

Belongs within: Ammonoidea.

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

Characters (from Miller et al. 1957): Conch discoidal to globular, umbilicus small. Sutures ceratitic to ammonitic, forming series of subequal lateral lobes.

<==Popanoceratidae [Popanoceratoidea] SLE01
    |--Protopopanoceras RR79
    |--Propopanoceras RR79
    |--Mongoloceras RR79
    |--Tauroceras Toumanskaya 1938 SLE01
    |    `--*T. scrobiculatum (Gemmellaro 1887) [=Popanoceras scrobiculatum] SLE01
    `--Popanoceras Hyatt 1884 [incl. Pamiropopanoceras Leonova 1989] ZL04
         |--*P. sobolewskyanus (de Verneuil 1845) (see below for synonymy) ZL04
         |--P. antiquum [=Arcestes antiquus] H84
         |--P. bowmani RR79
         |--P. ganti Smith 1903 P68
         |--‘*Pamiropopanoceras’ meridionale Leonova 1989 ZL04
         `--P. walcotti White 1889 P68

*Popanoceras sobolewskyanus (de Verneuil 1845) [=Goniatites sobolewskyanus, P. soboleskianum (l. c.); incl. Goniatites kiangianus de Verneuil 1845, P. kiangianum, G. koninckianus de Verneuil 1845, P. koninckianum] ZL04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[H84] Hyatt, A. 1883–1884. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Boston Soc. Nat. History, Proc. 22: 253–338.

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.