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Monacanthites monoceros

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Keyserlingitidae

Taxonomy
Monacanthites monoceros was named by Tozer (1965). Its type specimen is GSC 18838 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 56194, Chowade River (UCR), which is in a Spathian marine siliciclastic in the Toad Formation of Canada.

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2012-11-17

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Monacanthites monoceros Tozer p. 27 figs. Pl 1, figs 8-10; pl 2, fig 4
1969Monacanthites monoceros Kummel
1994Monacanthites monoceros Tozer p. 94 figs. Pl 37, figs 3a-c

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
superfamilyDinaritoidea(Mojsisovics 1882)
familyKeyserlingitidaeZacharov 1970
genusMonacanthitesTozer 1965
speciesmonocerosTozer 1965

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.

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Diagnosis
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