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Voltzia palmeri

Cephalopoda - Octobrachia - Trachyteuthididae

Taxonomy
Voltzia palmeri was named by Schevill (1950). Its type specimen is M.C.Z. 5027, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Jagua Vieja, which is in an Oxfordian marine horizon in the Jagua Formation of Cuba. It is the type species of Voltzia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1950Voltzia palmeri Schevill p. 99

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassColeoideaBather 1888
RankNameAuthor
Neocoleoidea
superorderVampyropodavon Boletzky 1992
orderOctobrachia(Fiorini 1981)
orderOctopodaLeach 1818
suborderTeudopseina(Storabogatov 1983)
familyTrachyteuthididae(Naef 1922)
genusVoltzia
speciespalmeri

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.

Voltzia palmeri Schevill 1950
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Diagnosis
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