Geological Magazine; March 2004; v. 141; no. 2;
p. 115-123; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756804009082
© 2004 Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Cladistic analysis of the Middle Jurassic ammonite radiation
S. MOYNE and
P. NEIGE*
Centre des Sciences de la Terre & UMR CNRS 5561 Biogéosciences, Université de Bourgogne, 6 bd Gabriel, F-21000 Dijon, France
* Author for correspondence: Pascal.Neige{at}u-bourgogne.fr
Cladistic analysis of the Middle Jurassic ammonite radiation shows how the Aalenian-age ancestral stock, known variously as the Hammatocerataceae or Hammatoceratinae, gave rise to numerous new groups in Bajocian times. Cladistic analysis shows this ancestral stock is not a single lineage but two: the Erycites group, which gave rise to the Stephanocerataceae, and the Hammatoceras group, from which all other Bajocian groups derived.
Key Words: phylogeny cladistics ammonoids Jurassic
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