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Diestoceras lavalense

Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae

Taxonomy
Diestoceras lavalense was named by Flower (1952). Its type specimen is a specimen in the collection of G. Winston Sinclair, a shell, and it is a cast. Its type locality is Île St-Jean, Montreal ("Terrebonne Fm."), which is in a Shermanian/Edenian deep subtidal shelf limestone/shale in the Tetreauville Formation of Canada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
D. macgilvrayoceras, D. reversum, D. schucherti

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1952Diestoceras lavalense Flower p. 54 figs. 1, 2 Pl. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassMulticeratoidea()
orderOncocerida()
familyDiestoceratidaeFoerste 1926
genusDiestocerasFoerste 1924
specieslavalense

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.

†Diestoceras lavalense Flower 1952
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Diagnosis
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