The Evolution and Classification of the Cretaceous Ammonites and their Jurassic Progenitors

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.

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 Houša, 1965
17. Suborder Perisphinctidina Houša, 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