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Glaphyrites fornicatus

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae

Taxonomy
Glaphyrites fornicatus was named by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1978). Its type specimen is PIN 455/38447, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shartym River, Sample 7, Southern Urals, Chelyabinsk, which is in a Marsdenian offshore shelf limestone in the Russian Federation.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
G. operosus, G. subdiscus
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2015-02-10

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Glaphyrites fornicatus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 152 figs. Pl 5, figs 1,2; text-fig 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyGastrioceratoidea()
familyGlaphyritidae
subfamilyGlaphyritinae
genusGlaphyritesRuzhencev 1936
speciesfornicatus

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.

†Glaphyrites fornicatus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available