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Cibolaites molenaari

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae

Taxonomy
Cibolaites molenaari was named by Cobban and Hook (1983). Its type specimen is USNM 328766, a shell, and it is a mold. Its type locality is USGS Loc. D11208, Fence Lake [Mancos Shale], which is in a Turonian marine shale in the Mancos Shale Formation of New Mexico. It is the type species of Cibolaites.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Cibolaites molenaari Cobban and Hook pp. 16-17 figs. pl. 2, figs. 1-9
2001Cibolaites molenaari Kennedy et al. p. 34

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyCollignoniceratidaeWright and Wright 1951
subfamilyCollignoniceratinaeWright and Wright 1951
genusCibolaites
speciesmolenaari

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.

†Cibolaites molenaari Cobban and Hook 1983
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Diagnosis
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