Orthoceras
creator: Bouchet, Philippe
creator: Neubauer, Thomas A.
creator: Köhler, Frank
creator: Pohle, Alexander
date: 2026-08-02
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Orthoceras Bruguière, 1789
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Orthoceras Bruguière, 1789&nbsp;&#8224;. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1374987 on 2026-08-02
created: 2019-09-03T10:37:57Z
modified: 2026-04-30T11:30:55Z
replaces: 1775925
replaces: 1775926
replaces: 1632166
rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Orthoceras Bruguière, 1789
class: Cephalopoda
family: Orthoceratidae
genus: Orthoceras
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4].
name published in: Gesner, J. (1758). Tractatus physicus de petrificatis in duas partes distinctus, quarum prior agit de petrificatorum differentiis, & eorum varia origine; altera vero de petrificatorum variis originibus, praecipuarumque telluris mutationum testibus. Haak, Lugduni Batavorum, 136 pp.
name published in year: 1789-1792
name published in year: 1758
order: Orthoceratida
parent name usage ID: 1374986
phylum: Mollusca
scientific name authorship: Bruguière, 1789
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted