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Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Taxonomy

Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) was named by Meek (1876).

It was assigned to Mortoniceras by Reyment (1955), Förster (1975), Kennedy et al. (1998), Szives (2007), Mosavinia et al. (2007), Kennedy et al. (2008), Sharifi et al. (2016), El Qot (2018).

Subtaxa

Synonyms

Pervinquieria (Styphloceras) was named by Van Hoepen (1951).

It was synonymized subjectively with Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) by Wright et al. (1996).

It was assigned to Pervinquieria by Van Hoepen (1955); and to Mortoniceras by McLearn (1972).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1876	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Meek
1951	Pervinquieria (Styphloceras) Van Hoepen p. 300
1955	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Reyment p. 29
1955	Pervinquieria (Styphloceras) Van Hoepen pp. 359-360
1972	Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) McLearn p. 72
1975	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Förster p. 233
1998	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Kennedy et al. p. 15
2007	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Mosavinia et al. p. 85
2007	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Szives p. 102
2008	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Kennedy et al. p. 42
2016	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Sharifi et al. p. 597
2018	Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) El Qot p. 160

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Ammonoidea	()
order	Ammonitida	Haeckel 1866
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Acanthoceratoidea	(de Grossouvre 1894)
family	Brancoceratidae
subfamily	Mortoniceratinae	Douvillé 1912
genus	Mortoniceras	Meek 1876
subgenus	Mortoniceras	Meek 1876

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. †Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Meek 1876

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†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) aequatorealis Kossmat 1895

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) albense Spath 1933

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme Spath 1922

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†Pervinquieria arietiformis compressa Haas 1942

†Pervinquieria arietiformis elegans Haas 1942

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) densecostatum van Hoepen 1946

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) evolutum Spath 1922

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Invalid names: Ophryoceras crassinodosum van Hoepen 1946 [synonym], Ophryoceras jugosum van Hoepen 1942 [synonym], Pervinquieria salebrosa van Hoepen 1942 [synonym]

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fallax Breistroffer 1940

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fissicostatum Spath 1932

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum Sowerby 1818

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†Ammonites inflatus circumspinosus Quenstedt 1857

†Pervinquieria inflata aequatorealis Kossmat 1907

Invalid names: Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) commune Spath 1932 [synonym]

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) kiliani Lasswitz 1904

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) multicostatum Van Hoepen 1942

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum Spath 1933

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum van Hoepen 1942

†Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum van Hoepen 1944