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Epistrenoceras contrarium

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Parkinsoniidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites contrarius was named by d'Orbigny (1846). It is the type species of Epistrenoceras.

It was recombined as Epistrenoceras contrarium by Enay et al. (1994), Dietze and Hostettler (2016).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Ammonites contrarius d'Orbigny
1994Epistrenoceras contrarium Enay et al. p. 135
2016Epistrenoceras contrarium Dietze and Hostettler figs. 7.4-7.7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyParkinsoniidaeBuckman 1920
genusEpistrenoceras
speciescontrarium()

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.

Epistrenoceras contrarium d'Orbigny 1846
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Diagnosis
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