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Shasticrioceras whitneyi

Cephalopoda - Megacrioceratidae

Taxonomy
Shasticrioceras whitneyi was named by Anderson (1938) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Cretaceous; Pacific Coast, North America.]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 1653, near Mitchell Creek, which is in an Aptian/Albian marine siliciclastic in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. nipponicus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Shasticrioceras whitneyi Anderson p. 205 figs. pl. 58, fig, 1
1960Shasticrioceras whitneyi Imlay p. 198
1975Shasticrioceras whitneyi Murphy p. 44 figs. Pl. 3, fig. 4; pl. 9, figs. 3, 4, 6, 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
superfamilyPtychoceratoideaGill 1871
familyMegacrioceratidaeVermeulen 2006
genusShasticrioceras
specieswhitneyi

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.

†Shasticrioceras whitneyi Anderson 1938
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Diagnosis
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