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Pseudovascoceras nigeriense

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Vascoceras nigeriense was named by Woods (1911). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Reme (Falconer collection), which is in a Turonian marine horizon in Nigeria.

It was recombined as Paravascoceras nigeriensis by Meister (1989); it was synonymized subjectively with Vascoceras (Paravascoceras) cauvini by Meister et al. (1992); it was recombined as Pseudovascoceras nigeriense by Gale et al. (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Vascoceras nigeriense Woods p. 281 figs. Pl 21, fig 6; pl 22, figs 2,3
1911Vascoceras nigeriensis Woods p. 281 figs. Pl 21, fig 6; pl 22, figs 2,3
1954Vascoceras nigeriense Reyment p. 256
1957Vascoceras nigeriense Barber p. 15 figs. Pl 4, fig 2; pl 26, figs 1,2
1989Paravascoceras nigeriensis Meister p. 14 figs. Pl 5, fig 1; pl 6, fig 1; text-fig 11
2005Pseudovascoceras nigeriense Gale et al. p. 174 fig. 4A,B

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyAcanthoceratinaede Groussouvre 1894
genusPseudovascocerasZaborski 1996
speciesnigeriense()

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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