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Dactylioceras commune

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae

Taxonomy

Ammonites communis was named by Sowerby (1815). Its type specimen is BMNH 43895a, b and is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Dactylioceras commune by Howarth (1962), Kutygin and Knyazev (2000), Devyatov et al. (2005).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. aequistriatum, D. alpestre, D. anguinum, D. annulatum, D. comptum, D. hoelderi, D. semicelatum, D. tenuicostatum, D. verme, D. aequistriatum, D. clevelandicum, D. ernsti, D. helianthoides, D. hoelderi, D. semicelatum, D. tenuicostatum

Year	Name and author
1815	Ammonites communis Sowerby
1962	Dactylioceras commune Howarth p. 409
1968	Dactylioceras absimile Dagys
1968	Dactylioceras circumactum Dagys
2000	Dactylioceras commune Kutygin and Knyazev p. 15 figs. Pl 3, figs 1, 3-6, 10; text-fig 2a, 3e-h
2005	Dactylioceras commune Devyatov et al. p. 16 figs. 3-4