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Muniericeras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae

Taxonomy
Muniericeras was named as a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Muniericeras lapparenti.

It was reranked as Schloenbachia (Muniericeras) by Basse (1931).

It was assigned to Schloenbachia by Basse (1931); to Muniericeratidae by Wright (1952), Kennedy (1995) and Wright et al. (1996); and to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002).

Species
M. bilottei, M. lapparenti (type species)

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Schloenbachia (Muniericeras) Basse
1952Muniericeras Wright
1968Morrisites Van Hoepen p. 185
1986Praemuniericeras Kennedy p. 54
1995Muniericeras Kennedy p. 407
1996Muniericeras Wright et al. p. 107
2002Muniericeras Sepkoski
2002Praemuniericeras Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familyMuniericeratidae
genusMuniericeras

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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Muniericeras bilottei Collignon 1983
Muniericeras lapparenti de Grossouvre 1894
Invalid names: Morrisites Van Hoepen 1968 [synonym], Praemuniericeras [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available