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Bostrychoceras californicum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae

Taxonomy
Bostrychoceras californicum was named by Anderson (1958). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCLA loc. 3461, west side of Anchor Avenue, Cheviot Hills, which is in a Pleistocene coastal siltstone in the Anchor Formation of California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Bostrychoceras californicum Anderson p. 56

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyNostoceratidaeHyatt 1894
genusBostrychoceras
speciescalifornicum

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.

†Bostrychoceras californicum Anderson 1958
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Diagnosis
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