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Oraniceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Parkinsoniidae

Taxonomy
Oraniceras was named as a genus. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Parkinsonia (Oraniceras) by Zatoń (2010).

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); to Parkinsonia by Zatoń (2010); and to Parkinsoniidae by Arkell et al. (1957), Besnosov and Mitta (1993) and Mitta (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Oraniceras Arkell et al. p. 309
1993Oraniceras Besnosov and Mitta p. 207
2002Oraniceras Sepkoski
2010Parkinsonia (Oraniceras) Zatoń p. 159
2015Oraniceras Mitta p. 596

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyParkinsoniidaeBuckman 1920
genusOraniceras

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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Oraniceras fretensis Wetzel 1950
Oraniceras scythicum Mitta 2015
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available