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Current Taxonomic Status of Late Cretaceous Ammonoid Species from the Western Interior Seaway Assigned to the Family Collignoniceratidae (Ammonitina: Acanthocerataceae)

Jonathan R. Hendricks

Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York

Note: Names in green are accepted; names in red are synonyms. Return to main list here. This page was last updated July 19, 2017.

Class Cephalopoda

Order Ammonoidea Zittel, 1884

Suborder Ammonitina Hyatt, 1889

Superfamily Acanthocerataceae Grossouvre, 1894

Duration: Lower Albian to Maastrichtian (Source: Wright et al., 1996).

Family Collignoniceratidae Wright and Wright, 1951

Duration: Upper Cenomanian to Upper Coniacian (Wright et al., 1996).

Subfamily Collignoniceratinae

Duration: Upper Cenomanian to Upper Coniacian (Wright et al., 1996).

Genus Cibolaites Cobban and Hook, 1983

Type species: Cibolaites molenaari

Duration: Upper Cenomanian to Lower Turonian (Wright et al., 1996).

Cibolaites molenaari Cobban and Hook, 1983

Original presentation: Olcostephanus superstes

Original publication: Cobban, W. A. and S. C. Hook. 1983. Mid-Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite fuana from Fence Lake area of west-central New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Memoir 41: 50 pp. [pp. 16-18, pl. 2, figs 1-9, pl. 3, figs 3-8, pl. 8, figs 6-8, pl. 13, figs 1-5, pl. 14, text-fig. 13].

Holotype: USNM 328766.

Type locality: awaiting determination.

Type horizon: awaiting determination.

Other specimens: USNM 328752-328767, USNM 329013 (paratypes).

WIS occurrences:

Turonian: Mancos Shale (Rio Salado Tongue) (NM) (Cobban and Hook, 1983).

Turonian: Atarque Sandstone (NM) (Cobban and Hook, 1983).

PaleoDB taxon number: 143723.

References: Cobban and Hook (1983).

Origin of name: “named for C. M. Molenaar” (Cobban and Hook, 1983, p. 18).

Subfamily Texanitinae Collignon, 1948

Duration: Lower Coniacian to Middle Campanian (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Genus Menabites Collignon, 1948

Type species: Menabites menabensis Collignon, 1948

Duration: questionably Upper Santonian, Lower Campanian to Middle Campanian (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

PaleoDB taxon number: 15173.

Menabites delawarensis (Morton, 1830)

Original presentation: Ammonites delawarensis Morton, 1830

Original publication: Morton. 1830. [p. 244, pl. 2, fig. 4]

Types: lost (see Cobban and Kennedy, 1992, p. 74).

 Other specimens: USNM 441391.

WIS occurrences:

Campanian: Ozan Formation (TX) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Campanian: Austin Chalk (TX) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Campanian: Burditt Marl (TX) (Young, 1963).

Campanian: Gober Chalk (Roxton Limestone Member) (TX) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Campanian: Gober Chalk equivalent (OK) (Young, 1963).

Other occurrences: Delaware (Merchantville Fm.), New Jersey (Merchantville Fm.) (Sohl and Mello in Owens et al., 1970); France, South Africa, questionably Madagascar (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

PaleoDB taxon number: 145701.

Reference: Cobban and Kennedy (1992).

 Menabites danei (Young, 1963)

Original presentation: Delawarella danei

Original publication: Young. 1963. [p. 114, pl. 57, fig. 6, pl. 62, figs. 1-2, pl. 64, figs. 1, 5, pl. 65, figs. 1-2, pl. 66, figs. 3-4, text-figs. 24e, 33b].

Holotype: TMM 30646.

Type locality: McCurtain County, Oklahoma (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Type horizon: “formation equivalent to the Gober Chalk” (Young, 1963 quoted in Cobban and Kennedy, 1992, p. 76).

Other specimens: USNM 441392-441395.

WIS occurrences:

Campanian: Gober Chalk (Roxton Limestone Member) (TX) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Campanian: Gober Chalk (Roxton Limestone Member) equivalent (OK) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Campanian: Ozan Formation (TX) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

PaleoDB taxon number: 343906.

Reference: Cobban and Kennedy (1992).

 Menabites vanuxemi (Morton, 1830)

Original presentation: Ammonites vanuxemi

Original publication: Morton. 1830. [p. 244, pl. 3, figs. 4-5].

Holotype: ANSP 19492.

Type locality: “Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Delaware” (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992, p. 78).

Other specimens: USNM 441397, USNM 441398.

WIS occurrences:

Campanian: Ozan Formation (TX) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Campanian: Gober Chalk (Roxton Limestone Member) (TX) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

Other occurrences: New Jersey (Merchantville Fm.), Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Merchantville Fm., Woodbury Clay) (Cobban and Kennedy, 1992).

PaleoDB taxon number: 145715.

Reference: Cobban and Kennedy (1992).