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Properrinites boesei

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Perrinitidae

Taxonomy
Perrinites boesei was named by Plummer and Scott (1937). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is B.E.G. 42-T-18, Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe Railway, Coleman, which is in an Artinskian coastal shale in the Admiral Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Properrinites.

It was recombined as Properrinites boesei by Miller and Furnish (1940), Miller and Youngquist (1947), Tharalson (1984), Kues (1995) and Leonova (2002).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. bakeri

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Perrinites boesei Plummer and Scott p. 307 figs. Pl 25, figs 1-8; text-fig 61g
1940Properrinites boesei Miller and Furnish
1947Properrinites boesei Miller and Youngquist p. 13 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-5
1984Properrinites boesei Tharalson p. 825 figs. 16A, 17, 18
1995Properrinites boesei Kues p. 87 figs. 10.12-10.14,11A,B
2002Properrinites boesei Leonova

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyShumarditoidea(Plummer and Scott 1937)
familyPerrinitidae
genusProperrinitesElias 1938
speciesboesei()

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.

†Properrinites boesei Plummer and Scott 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available