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Neokentroceras curvicornu

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Taxonomy
Neokentroceras curvicornu was named by Spath (1922) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Upper Albian. Type species by Opinion ICZN 1254]. Its type specimen is BMNH C.20116, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 295, shore at landing-place near Hanha, which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in Angola. It is the type species of Neokentroceras.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Neokentroceras curvicornu Spath p. 139 figs. D, 1, 1a, 2
1942Neokentroceras speciosum Haas p. 61 figs. pl. 8, figs. 14-178
1942Neokentroceras curvicornu Haas p. 63 figs. Pl 8, figs 20-22; text-fig 6q
1955Neokentroceras curvicornu Reyment p. 41 figs. Pl 4, figs 9a,b
1965Neokentroceras curvicornu Howarth p. 346

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyBrancoceratidae
subfamilyBrancoceratinaeSpath 1934
genusNeokentroceras
speciescurvicornu

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: Neokentroceras speciosum Haas 1942 [synonym]
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Diagnosis
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