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Ringsteadia frequens

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae

Taxonomy
Ringsteadia frequens was named by Salfeld (1917). Its type specimen is NHM C24092, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wootton Bassett (uppermost Ampthill Clay, BMNH), which is in an Oxfordian marine claystone in the Ampthill Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Ringsteadia frequens Salfeld p. 81 figs. Pl 9, figs 2,3
2010Ringsteadia frequens Wright p. 37 figs. Pl 6, figs 1,4,5; pl 7, figs 1,7; pl 8, fig 1; text-figs 6H,I,K, 7M

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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
genusRingsteadia
speciesfrequensSalfeld 1917

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.

†Ringsteadia frequens Salfeld 1917
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Diagnosis
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