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Prohysteroceras dubium

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Taxonomy
Prohysteroceras dubium was named by Spath (1922). Its type specimen is BMNH C.20051, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 1, Shore at Old Lobito, which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in Angola.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. irregulare

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Prohysteroceras dubium Spath p. 146 figs. Pl 4, figs 11a,b
1942Prohysteroceras dubium Haas p. 130 figs. Pl 34, fig 2; text-fig 15a

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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)
familyBrancoceratidae
subfamilyMortoniceratinaeDouvillé 1912
genusProhysterocerasSpath 1921
speciesdubium

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.

†Prohysteroceras dubium Spath 1922
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Diagnosis
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