This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species.
This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species.
Michael Robert Cooper attended the University of Natal where he graduated B.Sc. in 1969 and B.Sc. Hons in 1970. He joined the South African Museum, Cape Town, in 1971 as the invertebrate palaeontologist, his research focusing chiefly on ammonites, but also working on trilobites and trigoniid bivalves.; during this time, he was awarded his M.Sc. He completed his doctoral studies at Oxford University in 1977, and spent a year as a sectional geologist on Shackleton Mine, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, after which he returned to Oxford in 1978 on a post-doctoral studentship. He went on to become a palaeontologist at the Queen Victoria Museum in Salisbury, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, where his research focused mainly on dinosaurs, birds and tortoises, and later joined the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa as a temporary junior lecturer in palaeontology and stratigraphy, where his research focused mainly on stratigraphy, ammonites, bivalves (trigoniids, oysters) and brachiopods. He took early retirement in 2002 as an Emeritus Professor but has continued his work on ammonites and trigoniid bivalves. Since then, he has published three books, and authored 140 scientific publications on such varied topics as Cretaceous and Cainozoic stratigraphy, eustasy and tectonic cycles, ammonites, bivalves, trilobites, brachiopods, dinosaurs, birds, living moths and living cycads.
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Introduction 1. Phylum Mollusca Linnaeus, 1758 2. Clade Eumollusca Ruppert, Fox & Barnes, 2004 3. Subphylum Conchifera Gegenbaur, 1878 4. Superclass Cyrtosoma Runnegar & Pojeta, 1974 5. Class Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1797 6. Subclass Neocephalopoda Lehmann & Hillmer, 1980 7. Megaorder Ammonita Aggasiz, 1840 8. Superorder Ammonitiformii Zittel, 1884 9. Order Phylloceratida Hyatt, 1900 10. Suborder Phylloceratidina Hyatt, 1900 11. Order Lytoceratida Hyatt, 1900 12. Suborder Lytoceratidina Hyatt, 1889 13. Suborder Tetragonitidina Schindewolf, 1962 14. Order Ammonitida Zittel, 1884 15. Suborder Haploceratidina Besnosov & Mikhailova, 1984 16. Order Perisphinctida Houa, 1965 17. Suborder Perisphinctidina Houa, 1965 18. Suborder Protancyloceratidina Vermeulen, 2005 19. Order Acanthoceratida Hyatt, 1900 20. Suborder Desmoceratidina Ruzhensev, 1962 21. Suborder Placenticeratidina Hyatt, 1900 22. Suborder Acanthoceratidina Hyatt, 1900 23. Hyporder Brancoceratoidei nov 24. Hyporder Acanthoceratoidei Hyatt, 1900 25. Hyporder Collignoniceratoidei nov 26. Order Ancyloceratida Wiedmann, 1962 27. Suborder Ataxioceratidina nov 28. Hyporder Ataxioceratoidei nov 29. Hyporder Polyptychitoidei nov 30. Hyporder Neocomitoidei Salfeld, 1921 31. Hyporder Crioceratitoidei nov 32. Hyporder Pulchellioidei nov 33. Suborder Ancyloceratidina Wiedmann, 1962 34. Hyporder Ancyloceratoidei Wiedmann, 1962 35. Hyporder Douvilleiceratoidei nov 36. Suborder Turrilitidina Besnosov & Mikhailova, 1984 References List of new genera Index
