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Kossmatella

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae

Taxonomy
Kossmatella was named by Jacob (1907) [Sepkoski's age data: K Albi-l K Ceno-l]. Its type is Ammonites agassizianus. It is the type genus of Kossmatellinae.

It was reranked as Lytoceras (Kossmatella) by Böse (1923) and Anderson (1938).

It was assigned to Lytoceras by Böse (1923) and Anderson (1938); to Gaudryceratinae by Wright et al. (1996); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); to Kossmatellinae by Szives (2007); to Tetragonitinae by Hoffmann (2010); and to Gaudryceratidae by Kennedy and Klinger (1979) and El Qot (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Kossmatella Jacob p. 285
1923Lytoceras (Kossmatella) Böse p. 128
1938Lytoceras (Kossmatella) Anderson p. 151
1979Kossmatella Kennedy and Klinger p. 165
1996Kossmatella Wright et al. p. 6
2002Kossmatella Sepkoski
2007Kossmatella Szives p. 94
2010Kossmatella Hoffmann p. 84
2018Kossmatella El Qot p. 150

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyTetragonitoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyTetragonitidaeHyatt 1900
subfamilyTetragonitinaeHyatt 1900
genusKossmatellaJacob 1907

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. †Kossmatella Jacob 1907
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Subg. †Kossmatella (Kossmatella) Jacob 1907
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Kossmatella agassiziana Pictet and Roux 1847
Kossmatella costata Douvillé 1916
Kossmatella muhlenbecki Fallot 1885
Kossmatella romana Wiedmann 1962
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available