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Scaphites (Scaphites)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Taxonomy
Scaphites (Scaphites) was named by Parkinson (1811). Its type is Scaphites equalis.

It was assigned to Scaphites by Birkelund (1965), Kennedy (1984), Kennedy and Cobban (1990), Kennedy and Christensen (1991), Cobban and Kennedy (1992), Kennedy et al. (1992), Kennedy and Cobban (1993), Kennedy (1993), Kennedy and Christennsen (1993), Kennedy (1994), Kennedy (1995), Kennedy and Kaplan (1995), Kennedy et al. (1997), Szives (2007), Kennedy and Latil (2007), Kennedy et al. (2008), Sealey and Lucas (2019).

Subtaxa
Scaphites (Scaphites) binodosus (syn. Scaphites inflatus), Scaphites (Scaphites) cobbani, Scaphites (Scaphites) depressus (syn. Scaphites ventricosus stantoni, Scaphites depressus oregonensis), Scaphites (Scaphites) evanicsi, Scaphites (Scaphites) ferronensis, Scaphites (Scaphites) gibbus, Scaphites (Scaphites) haugi, Scaphites (Scaphites) hugardianus, Scaphites (Scaphites) kieslingswaldensis, Scaphites (Scaphites) leei (syn. Scaphites senessei), Scaphites (Scaphites) meslei (syn. Scaphites potieri, Scaphites arnaudiformis, Scaphites sagensis, Scaphites lamberti), Scaphites (Scaphites) preventricosus (syn. Scaphites preventricosus sweetgrassensis, Scaphites (Scaphites) preventricosus svartenhukensis), Scaphites (Scaphites) rosenkrantzi, Scaphites (Scaphites) simplex, Scaphites (Scaphites) warreni (syn. Scaphites warreni haydeni, Scaphites warreni wyomingensis, Scaphites warreni ubiquitasus), Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi
Species lacking formal opinion data
Scaphites aequalis, Scaphites aquilaensis, Scaphites aquisgranensiformis, Scaphites bassei, Scaphites besairiei, Scaphites brahminicus, Scaphites brittonensis, Scaphites choteauensis, Scaphites clavigera, Scaphites collignoni, Scaphites dailyi, Scaphites decaryi, Scaphites delicatulus, Scaphites frontierensis, Scaphites genyi, Scaphites greenlandicus, Scaphites impendicostatus, Scaphites iris, Scaphites kieslingswaldensis, Scaphites kieslingswaldensis, Scaphites kieslingwaldensis, Scaphites larvaeformis, Scaphites manasoaensis, Scaphites mesli, Scaphites plenus, Scaphites preventicosus, Scaphites pseudoequalis, Scaphites reesidei, Scaphites rioensis, Scaphites rugosus, Scaphites stantoni, Scaphites uintensis, Scaphites vellai, Scaphites wellmani, Scaphites yonekurai, Scaphites yorkensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1811Scaphites (Scaphites) Parkinson
1965Scaphites (Scaphites) Birkelund p. 79
1984Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy p. 146
1990Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy and Cobban p. 417
1991Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy and Christensen p. 222
1992Scaphites (Scaphites) Cobban and Kennedy p. 84
1992Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy et al. p. 275
1993Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy p. 112
1993Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy and Christennsen p. 155
1993Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy and Cobban p. 845
1994Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy p. 234
1995Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy p. 432
1995Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy and Kaplan p. 32
1997Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy et al. p. 14
2007Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy and Latil p. 474
2007Scaphites (Scaphites) Szives p. 120
2008Scaphites (Scaphites) Kennedy et al. p. 47
2019Scaphites (Scaphites) Sealey and Lucas p. 197

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyScaphitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyScaphitidaeGill 1871
subfamilyScaphitinaeGill 1871
genusScaphitesParkinson 1811
subgenusScaphitesParkinson 1811

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.

Subg. †Scaphites (Scaphites) Parkinson 1811
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Invalid names: Scaphites inflatus Roemer 1841 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Scaphites ventricosus stantoni Reeside 1927 [synonym]
†Scaphites (Scaphites) gibbus Schlüter 1872
†Scaphites (Scaphites) haugi de Grossouvre 1894
†Scaphites (Scaphites) kieslingswaldensis Langenhan and Grundey 1891
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Invalid names: Scaphites bartlingi Riedel 1931 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Scaphites senessei Basse 1939 [synonym]
†Scaphites (Scaphites) meslei de Grossouvre 1894
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Invalid names: Scaphites arnaudiformis Collignon 1965 [synonym], Scaphites lamberti de Grossouvre 1894 [synonym], Scaphites potieri de Grossouvre 1894 [synonym], Scaphites sagensis Cobban 1952 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Scaphites preventricosus sweetgrassensis Cobban 1951 [synonym]
†Scaphites (Scaphites) simplex Jukes-Browne 1875
†Scaphites (Scaphites) warreni Meek and Hayden 1860
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Invalid names: Scaphites warreni haydeni Cobben 1951 [synonym], Scaphites warreni wyomingensis Meek 1876 [synonym]
Invalid names: Scaphites (Scaphites) preventricosus svartenhukensis Birkelund 1965 [synonym], Scaphites depressus oregonensis Cobban 1951 [synonym], Scaphites warreni ubiquitasus Cobban 1951 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available