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Valdedorsella whiteavesi

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Taxonomy
Valdedorsella whiteavesi was named by Imlay (1960). Its type specimen is USNM 130145, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Alaska, Kennicott Formation, USGS Mes. loc. 9492, which is in an Albian marginal marine sandstone in Alaska.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
V. uhligi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Valdedorsella whiteavesi Imlay p. 100 figs. pl. 11, figs. 20-23, 25-28

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familyDesmoceratidaeZittel 1895
subfamilyPuzosiinaeSpath 1922
genusValdedorsellaBreistroffer 1947
specieswhiteavesi

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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