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Gyaloceras ibo

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae

Taxonomy
Gyaloceras ibo was named by Reyment (1955) [DISTRIBUTION: Albian; Nigeria.]. Its type specimen is BMNH U3545, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bansara road, halfway between Cross River and Abakaliki, which is in an Albian coastal sandstone in the Nwofe Sandstone Formation of Nigeria.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1955Gyaloceras ibo Reyment p. 15 figs. Pl 2, figs 1-3; text-figs 3,4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderHaploceratina
superfamilyHaploceratoidea(Zittel 1884)
familyOppeliidaeBonarelli 1894
subfamilyAconeceratinae(Spath 1923)
genusGyaloceras
speciesibo

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.

†Gyaloceras ibo Reyment 1955
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Diagnosis
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