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Cyrtosiceras macrotelus

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites macrotelus was named by Oppel (1865). It is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Cyrtosiceras.

It was recombined as Cyrtosiceras macrotelus by Hyatt (1900) and Wright et al. (1996).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Ammonites macrotelus Oppel p. 548
1900Cyrtosiceras macrotelus Hyatt p. 569
1996Cyrtosiceras macrotelus Wright et al. p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderHaploceratina
superfamilyHaploceratoidea(Zittel 1884)
familyOppeliidaeBonarelli 1894
subfamilyStreblitinaeSpath 1925
genusCyrtosiceras
speciesmacrotelus(Oppel 1865)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003
Collections
No collection or age range data are available