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Paraceltites altudensis

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Paraceltitidae

Taxonomy
Paralecanites altudensis was named by Böse (1919). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South of intrusive plug on Captain James's Ranch, Altuda, which is in a Wordian carbonate limestone in the Altuda Formation of Texas.

It was synonymized subjectively with Paraceltites elegans by Spinosa et al. (1975); it was recombined as Paraceltites altudensis by Miller and Furnish (1940), Miller (1944), Zhao and Zheng (1977) and Leonova (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Paralecanites altudensis Böse p. 178 figs. Pl 11, figs 28-45
1937Paralecanites altudensis Plummer and Scott p. 372 figs. Pl 37, figs 11-13
1940Paraceltites altudensis Miller and Furnish p. 70 figs. Pl 23, figs 1-3; pl 24, fig 7
1944Paraceltites altudensis Miller
1977Paraceltites altudensis Zhao and Zheng p. 248 figs. Pl 5, figs 15,16
2002Paraceltites altudensis Leonova p. 99

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
suborderParaceltitinaShevyrev 1968
superfamilyXenodiscoidea(Frech 1902)
familyParaceltitidaeSpath 1930
genusParaceltites
speciesaltudensis()

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
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