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Saghalinites wrighti

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae

Taxonomy
Saghalinites wrighti was named by Birkelund (1965) [DISTRIBUTION: Maastrichtian; Europe.]. Its type specimen is MMH 9747, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Oyster-ammonite Conglomerate loc. III, Agatdalen, Nugssuaq, which is in a Maastrichtian offshore shale in Greenland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Saghalinites wrighti Birkelund p. 30 figs. Pl 1, fig 5; pl 2, figs 1-5; text-figs 14-25
1993Saghalinites wrighti Birkelund p. 45 figs. Pl 1, figs 6,7; pl 2, figs 1,3,4,6
1993Saghalinites wrighti Ward and Kennedy p. 21 figs. 19.3, 19.4, 19.8, 19.12, 20.1-20.3
2001Saghalinites wrighti Courville and Odin p. 531 figs. Pl 1, figs 6-9

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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
genusSaghalinitesWright and Matsumoto 1954
specieswrighti

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.

†Saghalinites wrighti Birkelund 1965
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Diagnosis
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