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Himalayites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Himalayitidae

Taxonomy
Himalayites is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Himalayitinae by Helmstaedt (1969) and Myczynski (1989); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Himalayitidae by Garrido et al. (2018).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Himalayites Helmstaedt p. 78
1989Himalayites Myczynski p. 106
2002Himalayites Sepkoski
2018Himalayites Garrido et al. p. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyHimalayitidaeSpath 1925
genusHimalayites

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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Himalayites seideli Oppel 1863
Himalayites tardosi Fozy et al. 2013
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available