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Pseudophyllites indra

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites indra was named by Forbes (1846). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pondicherry, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/claystone in the Valudavur Formation of India. It is the type species of Pseudophyllites.

It was recombined as Pseudophyllites indra by Marshall (1926), Matsumoto (1959), Jones (1963), Henderson and McNamara (1985), Kennedy (1986), Kennedy and Summesberger (1986), Macellari (1986), Kennedy and Henderson (1992), Ward and Kennedy (1993), Kennedy and Hancock (1993), Courville and Odin (2001), Klinger et al. (2001), Salazar et al. (2010), Zakharov et al. (2012) and Niebuhr et al. (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Ammonites garuda Forbes p. 102 figs. Pl 7, fig 1
1846Ammonites indra Forbes p. 105 figs. Pl 11, fig 7
1894Gaudryceras colloti de Grossouvre p. 229 figs. Pl 37, fig 8
1926Pseudophyllites indra Marshall p. 152 figs. Pl 20, fig 1; pl 29, figs 3-5
1959Pseudophyllites indra Matsumoto pp. 154 - 155
1963Pseudophyllites indra Jones p. 25
1985Pseudophyllites indra Henderson and McNamara p. 50 figs. Pl 2, figs 7,8; pl 3, figs 4,5; text-fig 5a,d
1986Pseudophyllites indra Kennedy p. 19 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-5; text-figs 4E, 5A, 6A-E
1986Pseudophyllites indra Kennedy and Summesberger p. 187
1986Pseudophyllites indra Macellari p. 16
1992Pseudophyllites indra Kennedy and Henderson p. 398 figs. Pl 3, figs 7-9, 13-27; pl 4, figs 1-3
1993Pseudophyllites indra Kennedy and Hancock p. 577 figs. Pl 1, figs 4,7
1993Pseudophyllites indra Ward and Kennedy p. 22 figs. 17.8, 18.9, 18.10, 19.7, 19.9, 19.13, 21.2, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 27.6
2001Pseudophyllites indra Courville and Odin p. 531 figs. Pl 1, fig 4
2001Pseudophyllites indra Klinger et al. p. 279 figs. Pl 2, figs 1-7
2010Pseudophyllites indra Salazar et al. p. 198 figs. 13a-c
2012Pseudophyllites indra Zakharov et al. p. 152 figs. 3.21, 3.22
2016Pseudophyllites indra Niebuhr et al. p. 205 figs. 4-6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyTetragonitoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyTetragonitidaeHyatt 1900
genusPseudophyllitesKossmat 1895
speciesindra()

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.

Pseudophyllites indra Forbes 1846
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Invalid names: Ammonites garuda Forbes 1846 [synonym], Gaudryceras colloti de Grossouvre 1894 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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