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Praegravesia rolkei

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae

Taxonomy
Praegravesia rolkei was named by Zeiss (1987). Its type specimen is MSW III 3/2, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Klieversberg quarry, Wolfsburg, which is in a Kimmeridgian carbonate limestone in Germany. It is the type species of Praegravesia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Praegravesia rolkei Zeiss p. 229 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2; pl 2, figs 1-3; text-fig 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyAulacostephanidaeSpath 1924
subfamilyGravesiinae
genusPraegravesia
speciesrolkei

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.

†Praegravesia rolkei Zeiss 1987
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Diagnosis
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