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Sicanites

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Sicanites was named by Gemmellaro (1887) [Sepkoski's age data: P Asse P Guad-l Sepkoski's reference number: 1251].

It was assigned to Prolecanitida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Sicanitinae by Leonova (1989), Leonova (2002), Korn (2006), Furnish et al. (2009), Zhou (2017) and Leonova (2019).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Sicanites Gemmellaro p. 60
1940Aktubinskia Ruzhencev
1989Sicanites Leonova p. 102
2002Aktubinskia Leonova
2002Sicanites Leonova
2002Aktubinskia Sepkoski
2002Sicanites Sepkoski
2006Aktubinskia Korn
2006Sicanites Korn
2009Sicanites Furnish et al. p. 210
2017Sicanites Zhou p. 42
2019Aktubinskia Leonova
2019Sicanites Leonova

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderProlecanitidaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyMedlicottioidea(Karpinsky 1889)
familyMedlicottiidae
subfamilySicanitinaeNoetling 1904
genusSicanites

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.

G. †Sicanites Gemmellaro 1887
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Sicanites bactrianus Leonova 1985
Sicanites croaticus Vogl 1913
Sicanites evolutus Leonova 1985
Sicanites notabilis Ruzhentsev 1940
Sicanites schopeni Gemmellaro 1887
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Invalid names: Sicanites mojsisovicsi Gemmellaro 1887 [synonym]
Invalid names: Aktubinskia Ruzhencev 1940 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available