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Nostoceras pauper

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae

Taxonomy
Turrilites pauper was named by Whitfield (1892) [DISTRIBUTION: Campanian-Maastrichtian; North America, Europe.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Nostoceras (Nostoceras) pauper by Kennedy and Cobban (1993) and Kennedy (1993); it was recombined as Nostoceras pauper by Kennedy et al. (2000).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
N. angolense, N. turrilites

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1892Turrilites pauper Whitfield p. 268 figs. pl. 45, figs. 1-5
1993Nostoceras (Nostoceras) pauper Kennedy p. 106
1993Nostoceras (Nostoceras) pauper Kennedy and Cobban p. 420
2000Nostoceras pauper Kennedy et al. p. 49

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyNostoceratidaeHyatt 1894
genusNostoceras
speciespauper(Whitfield 1892)

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.

†Nostoceras pauper Whitfield 1892
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available