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Pachydiscus peramplus

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites peramplum was named by Mantell (1822). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was corrected as Ammonites peramplus by de Sowerby (1823); it was recombined as Neoptychites peramplus by de Grossouvre (1901); it was recombined as Pachydiscus peramplus by Stille (1904); it was recombined as Lewesiceras peramplus by Young (1979) and Wright and Kennedy (1984); it was recombined as Lewesiceras peramplum by Housa (1967), Chancellor et al. (1994), Wilmsen and Nagm (2013), Wilmsen and Nagm (2014) and Benzaggagh et al. (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1822Ammonites peramplum Mantell pp. 200 - 201
1823Ammonites peramplus de Sowerby p. 79
1901Neoptychites peramplus de Grossouvre p. 661 figs. text f.. 26.
1904Pachydiscus peramplus Stille p. 25
1967Lewesiceras peramplum Housa pp. 10 - 26 figs. Pis. I—III, pi. IV, figs. 1, 2, text-fig. 3
1979Lewesiceras peramplus Young p. 33
1984Lewesiceras peramplus Wright and Kennedy p. 63
1994Lewesiceras peramplum Chancellor et al. p. 20
2013Lewesiceras peramplum Wilmsen and Nagm p. 650 figs. 3-5
2014Lewesiceras peramplum Wilmsen and Nagm p. 204 fig. 3a,b
2017Lewesiceras peramplum Benzaggagh et al. p. 117 figs. 7C-E

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familyPachydiscidaeSpath 1922
genusPachydiscusZittel 1884
speciesperamplus()

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.

Pachydiscus peramplus Mantell 1822
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available