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Eurycephalites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae

Taxonomy
Eurycephalites is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Macrocephalitidae by Arkell et al. (1957); to Eurycephalitinae by Parent (1998); and to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Eurycephalites Arkell et al. p. 294
1998Eurycephalites Parent p. 110
2002Eurycephalites Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyStephanoceratoidea(Newmayr 1875)
familySphaeroceratidaeBuckman 1920
subfamilyEurycephalitinaeThierry 1976
genusEurycephalites

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.

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Eurycephalites extremus Tornquist 1898
Eurycephalites gottschei Tornquist 1898
Eurycephalites involutus Riccardi and Westermann 1991
Eurycephalites rotundus Tornquist 1898
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available