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Elobiceras primordiale

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Taxonomy
Elobiceras primordiale was named by Haas (1942) [DISTRIBUTION: Albian; West Africa.]. Its type specimen is AMNH 25163, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Hanha, near Lobito (Vernay collection), which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in Angola.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Elobiceras primordiale Haas p. 101 figs. pl. 23, figs. 2a-c

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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
subfamilyMortoniceratinaeDouvillé 1912
genusElobiceras
speciesprimordiale

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Diagnosis
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