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Calycoceras (Gentoniceras)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Gentoniceras Thomel p. 65
1996Calycoceras (Gentoniceras) Kennedy et al. p. 12
1996Calycoceras (Gentoniceras) Wright et al. p. 164
2002Gentoniceras Sepkoski
2016Calycoceras (Gentoniceras) Sharifi et al. p. 604

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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
genusCalycoceras
subgenusGentoniceras()

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.

Subg. †Calycoceras (Gentoniceras) Thomel 1972
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Invalid names: Eucalycoceras subgentoni Spath 1926 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
C. W. Wright et al. 1996Small, evolute, with strongly tuberculate inner whorls; siphonal tubercles normally disappearing early, then ventrolaterals; umbilical tubercles may persist; body chamber with strong, well-spaced ribs; ribs single, or branching at umbilical tubercles or edge, or long and short, and uninterrupted on evenly rounded venter. Strongly dimorphic; macroconchs commonly twice the size of microconchs