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Prothalassoceras inflatum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae

Taxonomy
Prothalassoceras inflatum was named by Ruzhentsev (1950). Its type specimen is PIN 320/1595, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ural river, east of Ilinskoe, which is in a Gzhelian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1950Prothalassoceras inflatum Ruzhentsev p. 110 figs. Pl 4, fig 6; text-fig 39
1995Prothalassoceras inflatum Bogoslovskaya et al. p. 298 fig. 5.18,5.19,10.4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyThalassoceratoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyThalassoceratidaeHyatt 1900
genusProthalassoceras
speciesinflatum

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Prothalassoceras inflatum Ruzhentsev 1950
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