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Sciponoceras gracile

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae

Taxonomy
Baculites gracilis was named by Shumard (1860).

It was recombined as Sciponoceras gracile by Cooper (1978), Wilmsen and Nagm (2013), Wilmsen and Nagm (2014), Sealey and Lucas (2019).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1860Baculites gracilis Shumard
1958Cyrtochilus stylus Anderson p. 188 figs. pl. 11, fig. 5, 5a
1978Sciponoceras gracile Cooper p. 70 figs. 12B-D
2013Sciponoceras gracile Wilmsen and Nagm p. 666 fig. 18C,D
2014Sciponoceras gracile Wilmsen and Nagm p. 232 fig. 13i,j
2019Sciponoceras gracile Sealey and Lucas p. 187 fig. 51A

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyBaculitidaeGill 1871
genusSciponocerasHyatt 1894
speciesgracile(Shumard 1860)

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.

Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860
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Invalid names: Cyrtochilus stylus Anderson 1958 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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