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Protetragonites quadrisulcatus

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites quadrisulcatus was named by d'Orbigny (1841). It is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Protetragonites.

It was recombined as Lytoceras (Protetragonites) quadrisulcatum by Kulkinskaia-Voronetz (1933); it was recombined as Lytoceras quadrisulcatum by Reboulet (1996); it was recombined as Protetragonites quadrisulcatus by Hyatt (1900), Wright et al. (1996), Grigore (2013) and Tongtherm et al. (2016).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Ammonites quadrisulcatus d'Orbigny
1900Protetragonites quadrisulcatus Hyatt p. 569
1933Lytoceras (Protetragonites) quadrisulcatum Kulkinskaia-Voronetz
1996Lytoceras quadrisulcatum Reboulet p. 191 figs. Pl 38, figs 8,9
1996Protetragonites quadrisulcatus Wright et al. p. 2
2013Protetragonites quadrisulcatus Grigore p. 95 figs. Pl 3, fig 5
2016Protetragonites quadrisulcatus Tongtherm et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
familyProtetragonitidaeSpath 1927
genusProtetragonites
speciesquadrisulcatus(d'Orbigny 1841)

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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Diagnosis
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