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Protetragonites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae

Taxonomy
Protetragonites was named by Hyatt (1900) [Sepkoski's age data: J Tith-l K Apti-u]. Its type is Ammonites quadrisulcatus.

It was reranked as Lytoceras (Protetragonites) by Kulkinskaia-Voronetz (1933).

It was assigned to Lytoceras by Kulkinskaia-Voronetz (1933); to Lytoceratidae by Förster (1975) and Wiedmann (1979); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); to Protetragonitidae by Arkadiev et al. (2000), Grigore (2013) and Tongtherm et al. (2016); and to Lytoceratinae by Murphy (1967), Wright et al. (1996), Hoffmann (2010) and Maisch and Salfinger-Maisch (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1900Protetragonites Hyatt p. 569
1927Hemitetragonites Spath
1927Leptotetragonites Spath
1933Lytoceras (Protetragonites) Kulkinskaia-Voronetz
1967Protetragonites Murphy p. 30
1975Protetragonites Förster p. 145
1979Protetragonites Wiedmann p. 284
1996Protetragonites Wright et al. p. 2
2000Protetragonites Arkadiev et al. p. 98
2002Hemitetragonites Sepkoski
2002Leptotetragonites Sepkoski
2002Protetragonites Sepkoski
2004Leptotetragonites Lukeneder p. 49
2010Protetragonites Hoffmann p. 40
2013Protetragonites Grigore p. 95
2016Protetragonites Maisch and Salfinger-Maisch p. 184
2016Protetragonites Tongtherm et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
familyProtetragonitidaeSpath 1927
genusProtetragonites

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. †Protetragonites Hyatt 1900
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Invalid names: Protetragonites mediocris Druschtschitz 1956 [synonym]
Protetragonites tauricus Kuljinskaia-Voronetz 1933
Protetragonites zuegeli Maisch and Salfinger-Maisch 2016
Invalid names: Hemitetragonites Spath 1927 [synonym], Leptotetragonites Spath 1927 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available