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Eucalycoceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Eucalycoceras was named by Spath (1923) [Sepkoski's age data: K Ceno-m K Ceno-u]. Its type is Ammonites pentagonus.

It was reranked as Calycoceras (Eucalycoceras) by Collignon (1937).

It was assigned to Calycoceras by Collignon (1937); to Acanthoceratidae by Matsumoto (1959) and Cobban (1988); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Acanthoceratinae by Kennedy (1994), Wright et al. (1996), Kennedy et al. (1996) and Guendouz et al. (2022).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Eucalycoceras Spath p. 144
1937Calycoceras (Eucalycoceras) Collignon p. 37
1959Eucalycoceras Matsumoto p. 94
1972Mantelliceras (Pseudomantelliceras) Thomel
1988Eucalycoceras Cobban p. 8
1994Eucalycoceras Kennedy p. 229
1996Eucalycoceras Kennedy et al. p. 316
1996Eucalycoceras Wright et al. p. 164
2002Eucalycoceras Sepkoski
2022Eucalycoceras Guendouz et al. p. 2165

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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
genusEucalycocerasSpath 1923

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.

G. †Eucalycoceras Spath 1923
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Eucalycoceras barcusi Jones 1938
Eucalycoceras denizoti Fabre 1940
Eucalycoceras diabloense Anderson 1958
Eucalycoceras gothicum Kossmat 1895
Eucalycoceras jeanneti Collignon 1937
Eucalycoceras pentagonum Jukes-Browne 1896
Eucalycoceras pervinquierei Collignon 1931
Eucalycoceras shastense Reagan 1924
Invalid names: Pseudomantelliceras Thomel 1972 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
C. W. Wright et al. 1996High-whorled and rather compressed; at first venter flat and may be bituberculate, but later arched and trituberculate; ribs dense and narrow to flat and distant, with sharp umbilical, inner and outer ventrolateral, and, at least on outer whorls, pointed or bullate siphonal tubercles; tubercles may disappear on body chamber and ribs become flat and steep behind.