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Choffaticeras (Leoniceras) ganiveti

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites ganiveti was named by Coquand (1859). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Girac, near Angoulême, which is in a Turonian carbonate carbonate in France.

It was recombined as Choffaticeras (Leoniceras) ganiveti by Kennedy and Gale (2016).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. koennei, Leoniceras luciaeformis, Leoniceras parvillieri, Leoniceras quaasi, Leoniceras segne
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2015-11-29

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Ammonites ganiveti Coquand p. 968
2016Choffaticeras (Leoniceras) ganiveti Kennedy and Gale p. 285 fig. 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
—Life
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyPseudotissotiidae(Hyatt 1903)
subfamilyPseudotissotiinaeHyatt 1903
genusChoffaticeras
subgenusLeoniceras(Douvillé 1912)
speciesganiveti(Coquand 1859)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available