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Amoeboceras (Amoebites) postacanthophorum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae

Taxonomy

Amoeboceras (Amoebites) postacanthophorum was named by Mesezhnikov (1984). Its type specimen is VNIGRI 6409/633, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mauryn'ya River, eastern slope of Prepolar Urals, which is in a Kimmeridgian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Amoebites kapffi, A. cricki, A. damoni, A. freboldi, A. glosense, A. kochi, A. koldeweyense, A. nathorsti, A. reclinatoalternans, A. regulare, A. schulginae, A. serratum, A. talbejense, A. tuberculatoalternans, A. kitschini, A. pingueforme, A. truculentum, Cardioceras alternoides

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1984	Amoeboceras (Amoebites) postacanthophorum Mesezhnikov p. 86 figs. Pl 3, fig 7; pl 5, fig 2; pl 58, fig 4

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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	Goniatitida	Hyatt 1884
suborder	Tornoceratina	Wedekind 1918
superfamily	Prionoceratoidea	()
family	Prionoceratidae	Hyatt 1884
genus	Amoeboceras
subgenus	Amoebites
species	postacanthophorum

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.

†Amoeboceras (Amoebites) postacanthophorum Mesezhnikov 1984

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available