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Rhaeboceras coloradoense

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Taxonomy
Rhaeboceras coloradoense was named by Cobban (1987). Its type specimen is USNM 413044, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic 16093, Reservoir No. 3, which is in a Campanian marine sandstone in the Pierre Shale Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Rhaeboceras coloradoense Cobban p. 11 figs. Pl 6, figs 16-21; pl 7, figs 4-6; text-fig 5
1992Rhaeboceras coloradoense Grier et al. p. 521 figs. 2.1, 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyScaphitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyScaphitidaeGill 1871
subfamilyScaphitinaeGill 1871
genusRhaebocerasMeek 1876
speciescoloradoense

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.

Rhaeboceras coloradoense Cobban 1987
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