Beschreibung
The ammonite groups we treated in this Catalogus are in general not used for precise stratigraphy because the genera and species have often long ranges over several zones and stages. For this reason we have included the genera and species of the Upper Cretaceous. Otherwise it would be a unnatural cut off for phylloceratid and tetragonitid (sub)genera like Phyllopachyceras, Hypophylloceras, Anagaudryceras, Gaudryceras, Kossmatella and Tetragonites and for the haploceratid family Binneytidae. Some genera and species around the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary are also considered because we do not know their exact stratigraphical position and, moreover, the IUGS did not rule on the boundary between these two systems. Once more specialists that are active in research on this superfamilies took part in the present Fossilium Catalogus. For decades Bernard JOLY studied the Jurassic and Cretaceous Phylloceratina. He is the author of three important monographs on the Phylloceratoidea, two on the fauna of Madagascar and one on that of France. He revised the phylloceratid species of the Cretaceous described by ALCIDE D'ORBIGNY in his 'Paleontologie française, Céphalopodes crétacés'. The achievement of Zdenek VASÍCEK is a long list of publications on the Lower Cretaceous ammonites and stratigraphy of the Carpathians of the Czech and Slovak Republics, Upper Austria and the Northern Calcareous Alps. He revised the ammonites described by UHLIG of the 'Teschener & Wernsdorfer Schichten'. The senior curator for Invertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Nature and Science of Japan, Yasunari SHIGETA, has published on the Upper Cretaceous biostratigraphy of Japan and Sakhalin (Russian Far East) and on the systematics of Tetragonites, Pseudophyllites and Gabbioceras. In 2001 his book "Ammonitology" appeared. René HOFFMANN is finishing his Ph D thesis on 'Functional and phylogenetic significance of the septallobe in lytoceratid ammonoids' at the Free University of Berlin. He gave us a fresh view on the systematics of the Lytoceratina. His comments on (sub)families and genera of the Lytoceratoidea and Tetragonitoidea are to be found in the Appendix. In addition to the acknowledgements in the previous parts of the Lower Cretaceous Ammonites we are obliged to Helga SCHMITZ, Bibliothek der Geologisch-Paläontologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien (Austria), Société géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre (France), Dr. Hisao ANDO, Ibaraki University, Dr. Masao FUTAKAMI, Kawamura Gakuen Women's University, Dr. Fumihisa KAWABE, Suginami Science Museum, Dr. Masaki MATSUKAWA, Gakugei University, Prof. Dr. Tadashi SATO, Fukada Geological Institute, Dr. Ryoji WANI, Yokohama National University, Dr. Seiichi TOSHIMITSU, geological museum of the Geological Survey (Japan), Dr. Ricardo BARRAGÁN, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Dra. María del CARMEN PERRILLIAT (Mexico), Dr. Mevlud SHARIKADZE & Dr. Zurab SURAMELASHVILI, Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia), Alexei P. IPPOLITOV, Moscow State University (Russian Federation), Josep Anton MORENO, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) for helping us with literature. Special thanks are due to Dr. Robert BUSNARDO, Université Claude Bernard Lyon (France), Dr. Gérard DELANOY, Université de Nice (France), Dr. Ottilia SZIVES, Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest (Hungaria) for providing us with additional information and to Juan WANG who helped to translate Chinese articles.
