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Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) tavense

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Vascoceras tavense was named by Faraud (1940) [DISTRIBUTION: Turonian; Europe.]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Colline de Bernon, near Tresques, which is in a Turonian marine sandstone in France.

It was synonymized subjectively with Vascoceras (Paravascoceras) cauvini by Meister et al. (1992); it was recombined as Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) tavense by Kennedy (1994), Barroso-Barcenilla (2007) and Kennedy and Gale (2016).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. toroiagaensis, S. revelieranus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Vascoceras tavense Faraud p. 43 figs. Pl 1, fig 1; pl 5, fig 1; pl 8, fig 2
1994Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) tavense Kennedy p. 259
2007Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) tavense Barroso-Barcenilla p. 133 figs. Pl 1, figs A,B
2016Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) tavense Kennedy and Gale p. 278 figs. 14-17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyMammitinae()
genusSpathitesKummel and Decker 1954
subgenusJeanrogericeras(Wiedmann 1960)
speciestavense()

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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Diagnosis
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