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Polyptychites (Euryptychites) diplotomus

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae

Taxonomy
Polyptychites diplotomus was named by Koenen (1902) [DISTRIBUTION: Valanginian; Europe, Greenland.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Euryptychites diplotomus by Jeletzky and Kemper (1988); it was recombined as Polyptychites (Euryptychites) diplotomus by Alsen (2006).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. confericosta, P. keysserlingi, P. ovatus, P. petschorensis, P. virgifer

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1902Polyptychites diplotomus Koenen figs. pl. 22m figs. H, I
1909Polyptychites gravidus Koenen p. 14 figs. Pls 1, 2
1988Euryptychites diplotomus Jeletzky and Kemper p. 33 figs. Pl 3, fig 3; pl 19, fig 3; text-figs 15, 16a,b
2006Polyptychites (Euryptychites) diplotomus Alsen p. 96

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctaceaeSteinman 1890
familyPolyptychitidaeWedekind 1918
subfamilyPolyptychitinaeWedekind 1918
genusPolyptychitesPavlow 1892
subgenusEuryptychites(Pavlow 1914)
speciesdiplotomus(Koenen 1902)

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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Invalid names: Polyptychites gravidus Koenen 1909 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available