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Phyllopachyceras kitei

Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae

Taxonomy
Phyllopachyceras kitei was named by Murphy and Rodda (2006). Its type specimen is CAS G 69547 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 1344, Old Horsetown, Clear Creek, which is in a Berriasian/Turonian marine horizon in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Phyllopachyceras kitei Murphy and Rodda pp. 63 - 64 figs. Plate 9 Figures 17, 18

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderPhylloceratida(Zittel 1884)
superfamilyPhylloceratoidea(Zittel 1884)
familyPhylloceratidaeZittel 1884
subfamilyPhylloceratinaeZittel 1884
genusPhyllopachycerasSpath 1925
specieskitei

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.

Phyllopachyceras kitei Murphy and Rodda 2006
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda 2006A Phyllopachyceras with higher than wide cross section and plication of the flank and umbilical wall beginning at a whorl height of 3 mm with finer plication across the venter from 10 mm whorl height.