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Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Taxonomy
Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) nanum was named by Spath (1933). Its type specimen is BMNH C35845, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Mortoniceras nanum by Young (1977); it was recombined as Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum by Kennedy et al. (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1933Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) nanum Spath p. 411 figs. pl 43, fig 6; pl 46, figs 4,5; text-fig 141
1977Mortoniceras nanum Young p. 273 figs. Pl 2, figs 21,22
2008Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum Kennedy et al. p. 44 figs. Pl 8, figs 4,6,7,13,14; pl 9, figs 1-8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyBrancoceratidae
subfamilyMortoniceratinaeDouvillé 1912
genusMortonicerasMeek 1876
subgenusMortonicerasMeek 1876
speciesnanum()

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
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