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Nordiceras timanicum

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Nordiceratidae

Taxonomy
Prolecanites timanicus was named by Holzapfel (1899). Its type specimen is TsNIGR 132/304, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ukhta River (Holzapfel collection), which is in a Frasnian carbonate limestone in the Ust-Yarega Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Nordiceras.

It was recombined as Nordiceras timanicus by Bogoslovsky (1969); it was recombined as Nordiceras timanicum by Becker and House (2000) and Korn and Klug (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1899Prolecanites timanicus Holzapfel
1969Nordiceras timanicus Bogoslovsky p. 286 figs. Pl 26, fig 2
2000Nordiceras timanicum Becker and House p. 84 figs. Pl 3, figs 1,13,14; text-fig 8C
2002Nordiceras timanicum Korn and Klug p. 124

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderGephuroceratinaRuzhencev 1957
superfamilyBelocerataceae
familyNordiceratidae
genusNordicerasBogoslovsky 1955
speciestimanicum(Holzapfel 1899)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Nordiceras timanicum Holzapfel 1899
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Diagnosis
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