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Arcthoplites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae

Taxonomy
Arcthoplites is a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Hoplites jachromensis. It is the type genus of Arcthoplitinae.

It was assigned to Gastroplitinae by Nagy (1970) and Alabushev (1995); to Cleoniceratidae by Wright et al. (1996); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Arcthoplitinae by Lehmann et al. (2013) and Lehmann et al. (2016).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Arcthoplites Nagy p. 32
1995Arcthoplites Alabushev p. 128
1996Arcthoplites Wright et al. p. 96
2002Arcthoplites Sepkoski
2013Arcthoplites Lehmann et al. p. 209
2016Arcthoplites Lehmann et al. p. 454

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyCleoniceratidae()
subfamilyArcthoplitinae
genusArcthoplites

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.

Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available