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Gaudryceras kayei

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites kayei was named by Forbes (1846). Its type specimen is BMNH C51050, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pondicherry, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/claystone in the Valudavur Formation of India.

It was recombined as Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) kayei by Anderson (1902) and Anderson (1958); it was recombined as Gaudryceras (Vertebrites) kayei by Matsumoto (1959); it was recombined as Vertebrites kayei by Kennedy and Klinger (1979) and Morozumi (1985); it was recombined as Gaudryceras kayei by Böse (1928), Henderson and McNamara (1985), Kennedy and Henderson (1992), Ward and Kennedy (1993), Kennedy (1999), Arkadiev et al. (2000) and Salazar et al. (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Ammonites kayei Forbes p. 101 figs. pl. 8, fig. 3
1902Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) kayei Anderson p. 83
1928Gaudryceras kayei Böse p. 269
1958Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) kayei Anderson p. 182
1958Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) coalingense Anderson p. 184 figs. Pl 68, fig 1
1958Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) birkhauseri Anderson p. 185 figs. Pl 68, figs 4,4a
1959Gaudryceras (Vertebrites) kayei Matsumoto p. 146
1979Vertebrites kayei Kennedy and Klinger p. 160 figs. Pl 14, fig 2; text-fig 5
1985Gaudryceras kayei Henderson and McNamara p. 46 figs. Pl 1, figs 13,14; pl 2, figs 5,6,9,10; text-fig 4b
1985Vertebrites kayei Morozumi p. 26 figs. Pl 9, fig 3; text-fig 6
1992Gaudryceras kayei Kennedy and Henderson p. 402 figs. Pl 5, figs 19,20,24,28-41; text-fig 3D
1993Gaudryceras kayei Ward and Kennedy p. 17 figs. 17.11, 18.11, 18.12, 18.15
1999Gaudryceras kayei Kennedy p. 644 figs. 5.1, 5.2, 16.2
2000Gaudryceras kayei Arkadiev et al. p. 98 figs. Pl 11, fig 1
2010Gaudryceras kayei Salazar et al. p. 195 figs. 5a-f, 7c-f, 10, 11a-b, 13d-e

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyTetragonitoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyTetragonitidaeHyatt 1900
subfamilyGaudryceratinae(Spath 1927)
genusGaudrycerasde Grossouvre 1894
specieskayei()

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.

Gaudryceras kayei Forbes 1846
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Invalid names: Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) birkhauseri Anderson 1958 [synonym], Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) coalingense Anderson 1958 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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