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Acanthoceras rhotomagense

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites rhotomagensis was named by Brongniart (1822) [DISTRIBUTION: Cenomanian; Cosmopolitan.]. It is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Acanthoceras, Metacanthoplites.

It was recombined as Metacanthoplites rhotomagensis by Hyatt (1900); it was recombined as Acanthoceras rhotomagensis by Kennedy (1994); it was misspelled as Acanthoceras rotomagense by Taubenhaus (1920); it was recombined as Acanthoceras rhotomagense by Neumayr (1875), Förster (1975), Zaborski (1990), Matsumoto and Skwarko (1991), Matsumoto and Skwarko (1993), Barroso-Barcenilla (2004), Mosavinia and Wilmsen (2011) and Gale et al. (2018).

Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1822Ammonites rhotomagensis Brongniart
1850Ammonites cenomanensis d'Orbigny p. 146
1867Ammonites rothomagensis Etheridge p. 69
1875Acanthoceras rhotomagense Neumayr
1897Acanthoceras cenomanense Kossmat p. 19
1900Metacanthoplites rhotomagensis Hyatt p. 589
1920Acanthoceras rotomagense Taubenhaus
1972Acanthoceras (Pseudacanthoceras) praecursor Thomel
1975Acanthoceras rhotomagense Förster p. 248 figs. Pl 16, figs 3,4
1990Acanthoceras rhotomagense Zaborski p. 570
1991Acanthoceras rhotomagense Matsumoto and Skwarko p. 257 figs. Pl 5, figs 1,4,6
1993Acanthoceras rhotomagense Matsumoto and Skwarko p. 421 figs. 11, 18B-D
1994Acanthoceras rhotomagensis Kennedy p. 225
2004Acanthoceras rhotomagense Barroso-Barcenilla p. 88 figs. Pl 1, fig 1
2011Acanthoceras rhotomagense Mosavinia and Wilmsen p. 184 figs. 5A-C
2018Acanthoceras rhotomagense Gale et al. p. 114 fig. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyAcanthoceratinaede Groussouvre 1894
genusAcanthoceras
speciesrhotomagense(Brongniart 1822)

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.

Acanthoceras rhotomagense Brongniart 1822
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Invalid names: Acanthoceras (Pseudacanthoceras) praecursor Thomel 1972 [synonym], Ammonites cenomanensis d'Orbigny 1850 [synonym]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available