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Mexicoceras guadalupense

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cyclolobidae

Taxonomy
Waagenoceras guadalupense was named by Girty (1908) [Waagenoceras cummingsi var. guadalupense]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 2965 green, southern Delaware Mountains, which is in a Roadian/Capitanian slope limestone in the Delaware Mountain Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Mexicoceras.

It was recombined as Mexicoceras guadalupense by Zhao (1980), Bogoslovskaya (1990), Leonova (2002) and Leonova (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Waagenoceras guadalupense Girty
1937Waagenoceras clavatum Plummer and Scott p. 160 figs. Pl 39, figs 12-15
1937Waagenoceras guadalupense Plummer and Scott p. 162 figs. Pl 39, figs 1-4
1940Waagenoceras guadalupense Miller and Furnish p. 163 figs. Pl 25, figs 4-6; pl 39, figs 7,8; pl 40, figs 1-7; pl 41, figs 1-7; pl 42, figs 1-6; pl 43, figs 1-3
1944Waagenoceras guadalupense Miller p. 109 figs. Pl 31, figs 1-5; pl 32, figs 9-12; text-fig 19
1945Waagenoceras guadalupense Miller p. 19 figs. Pl 7, figs 1,2
1980Mexicoceras guadalupense Zhao p. 80 fig. 1f
1990Mexicoceras guadalupense Bogoslovskaya p. 73
2002Mexicoceras guadalupense Leonova p. 86
2010Mexicoceras guadalupense Leonova

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyCycloloboidea(Zittel 1895)
familyCyclolobidaeZittel 1895
genusMexicocerasRuzhencev 1955
speciesguadalupense()

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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Invalid names: Waagenoceras clavatum Plummer and Scott 1937 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available