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Onitshoceras matsumotoi

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Taxonomy
Onitshoceras matsumotoi was named by Reyment (1954) [DISTRIBUTION: Turonian; Western Africa.]. Its type specimen is BMNH U.2613, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South of Awgu, which is in a Coniacian offshore shale in the Awgu Ndeaboh Shale Formation of Nigeria. It is the type species of Onitshoceras.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1954Onitshoceras matsumotoi Reyment p. 249 figs. Pl 3, figs 1,2; pl 5, fig 7; text-figs 1a-c
1955Onitshoceras matsumotoi Reyment p. 19

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familyDesmoceratidaeZittel 1895
subfamilyDesmoceratinaeZittel 1895
genusOnitshoceras
speciesmatsumotoi

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.

†Onitshoceras matsumotoi Reyment 1954
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