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Steueroceras jenkinsi

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae

Taxonomy
Steueroceras jenkinsi was named by Anderson (1933) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Cretaceous; Pacific Coast, North America. named but neither figured, nor described by Anderson 1933; said in Anderson 1938 to be a n. sp.]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 33502, Southeast of Burt's Ranch house on McCarthy Creek, which is in a Valanginian marine siliciclastic in the Paskenta Formation of California.

It was recombined as Neocomites jenkinsi by Anderson (1938) and Anderson (1938); it was recombined as Thurmanniceras jenkinsi by Imlay (1960) and Imlay and Jones (1970).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1933Steueroceras jenkinsi Anderson p. 1259 figs. pl. 29, fig. 1
1938Neocomites jenkinsi Anderson p. 165 figs. Plate 29, figure 1
1960Thurmanniceras jenkinsi Imlay p. 215 figs. Plate 40. figures 1, 2. 6. 7, 9
1970Thurmanniceras jenkinsi Imlay and Jones p. B49 figs. Plate 13, figures 1-6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyAulacostephanidaeSpath 1924
genusSteueroceras
speciesjenkinsi

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.

Steueroceras jenkinsi Anderson 1933
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