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Charactoceras cinereum

Cephalopoda - Apsidoceratidae

Taxonomy
Trochoceras cinereum was named by Blake (1882). It is not extant. Its type specimen is GSM 103522, a shell. Its type locality is Killey Bridge Fm. locality 1, NE of Pomeroy, which is in a Richmondian offshore mudstone/siltstone in the Killey Bridge Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Charactoceras cinereum by Evans (1993).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Trochoceras cinereum Blake
1993Charactoceras cinereum Evans p. 186 fig. 16

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
RankNameAuthor
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassMulticeratoidea()
familyApsidoceratidaeHyatt 1884
genusCharactocerasFoerste 1924
speciescinereum(Blake 1882)

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.

Charactoceras cinereum Blake 1882
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