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Cibolites africanus

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Paraceltitidae

Taxonomy
Cibolites africanus was named by Miller and Furnish (1957). Its type specimen is SUI 8298 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Djebel Tebaga, Bateun Beni Zid Series, which is in a Wordian marine shale in the Bateun Beni Zid Formation of Tunisia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Cibolites africanus Miller and Furnish p. 710 figs. Pl 83, figs 3,4; text-fig 4
1975Cibolites africanus Spinosa et al. p. 268
1977Cibolites africanus Termier and Termier p. 88
2002Cibolites africanus Leonova

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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
genusCibolites
speciesafricanus

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.

†Cibolites africanus Miller and Furnish 1957
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available