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Scaphites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Taxonomy
Scaphites was named by Parkinson (1811) [Sepkoski's age data: K Albi-u K Camp-u]. Its type is Scaphites equalis. It is the type genus of Scaphitidae, Scaphitaceae, Scaphitinae.

It was reranked as Ammonites (Scaphites) by Meek (1857).

It was assigned to Ammonites by Meek (1857); to Scaphitidae by Matsumoto (1959), Atabekyan and Khakimov (1976), Tanabe (1977), Thomel (1988), Henderson (1990); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Scaphitinae by Wright (1979), Kennedy (1984), Kennedy and Cobban (1990), Kennedy and Christensen (1991), Cobban and Kennedy (1992), Kennedy et al. (1992), Kennedy and Cobban (1993), Kennedy (1993), Kennedy and Christennsen (1993), Kennedy (1994), Kennedy (1995), Kennedy and Kaplan (1995), Kennedy et al. (1997), Arkadiev et al. (2000), Kennedy and Jolkicev (2004), Kennedy (2005), Szives (2007), Kennedy and Latil (2007), Kennedy et al. (2008), Kennedy and Gale (2015).

Species
S. (Scaphites), S. arcadiensis, S. binneyi, S. bosquensis, S. corvensis, S. delicatulus, S. diana, S. equalis (type species), S. eruciformis, S. geinitzii, S. gillisi, S. hippocrepis (syn. S. nanclasi), S. mariasensis, S. meriani, S. nigricollensis, S. obliquus, S. patulus, S. praecoquus, S. roemeri, S. subdelicatulus, S. ventricosus
Species lacking formal opinion data
S. aequalis, S. aquilaensis, S. aquisgranensiformis, S. bassei, S. besairiei, S. brahminicus, S. brittonensis, S. choteauensis, S. clavigera, S. collignoni, S. dailyi, S. decaryi, S. delicatulus, S. frontierensis, S. genyi, S. greenlandicus, S. impendicostatus, S. iris, S. kieslingswaldensis, S. kieslingswaldensis, S. kieslingwaldensis, S. larvaeformis, S. manasoaensis, S. mesli, S. plenus, S. preventicosus, S. pseudoequalis, S. reesidei, S. rioensis, S. rugosus, S. stantoni, S. uintensis, S. vellai, S. wellmani, S. yonekurai, S. yorkensis

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1811Scaphites Parkinson
1857Ammonites (Scaphites) Meek
1900Anascaphites Hyatt p. 572
1959Scaphites Matsumoto p. 171
1976Scaphites Atabekyan and Khakimov p. 73
1977Scaphites Tanabe p. 16
1979Scaphites Wright p. 298
1984Scaphites Kennedy p. 146
1988Scaphites Thomel p. 25
1990Scaphites Henderson p. 127
1990Scaphites Kennedy and Cobban p. 418
1991Scaphites Kennedy and Christensen p. 222
1992Scaphites Cobban and Kennedy p. 84
1992Scaphites Kennedy et al. p. 275
1993Scaphites Kennedy p. 112
1993Scaphites Kennedy and Christennsen p. 155
1993Scaphites Kennedy and Cobban p. 845
1994Scaphites Kennedy p. 234
1995Scaphites Kennedy p. 432
1995Scaphites Kennedy and Kaplan p. 32
1997Scaphites Kennedy et al. p. 14
2000Scaphites Arkadiev et al. p. 120
2002Anascaphites Sepkoski
2002Coloradoscaphites Sepkoski
2002Scaphites Sepkoski
2004Scaphites Kennedy and Jolkicev p. 378
2005Scaphites Kennedy p. 423
2007Scaphites Kennedy and Latil p. 474
2007Scaphites Szives p. 120
2008Scaphites Kennedy et al. p. 47
2015Scaphites Kennedy and Gale p. 520

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyScaphitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyScaphitidaeGill 1871
subfamilyScaphitinaeGill 1871
genusScaphitesParkinson 1811

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. †Scaphites Parkinson 1811
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Subg. †Scaphites (Scaphites) Parkinson 1811
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Invalid names: Scaphites inflatus Roemer 1841 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Scaphites depressus oregonensis Cobban 1951 [synonym]
†Scaphites (Scaphites) gibbus Schlüter 1872
†Scaphites (Scaphites) haugi de Grossouvre 1894
†Scaphites (Scaphites) kieslingswaldensis Langenhan and Grundey 1891
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Invalid names: Scaphites bartlingi Riedel 1931 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Scaphites senessei Basse 1939 [synonym]
†Scaphites (Scaphites) meslei de Grossouvre 1894
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Invalid names: Scaphites arnaudiformis Collignon 1965 [synonym], Scaphites lamberti de Grossouvre 1894 [synonym], Scaphites potieri de Grossouvre 1894 [synonym], Scaphites sagensis Cobban 1952 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Scaphites preventricosus sweetgrassensis Cobban 1951 [synonym]
†Scaphites (Scaphites) simplex Jukes-Browne 1875
†Scaphites (Scaphites) warreni Meek and Hayden 1860
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Invalid names: Scaphites warreni haydeni Cobben 1951 [synonym], Scaphites warreni ubiquitasus Cobban 1951 [synonym]
Invalid names: Scaphites (Scaphites) preventricosus svartenhukensis Birkelund 1965 [synonym], Scaphites ventricosus stantoni Reeside 1927 [synonym], Scaphites warreni wyomingensis Meek 1876 [synonym]
†Scaphites arcadiensis Moreman 1942
†Scaphites binneyi Reeside 1927
†Scaphites bosquensis Böse 1928
†Scaphites corvensis Cobban 1951
†Scaphites delicatulus Warren 1930
†Scaphites diana Wright 1979
†Scaphites equalis Sowerby 1813
†Scaphites eruciformis Etheridge 1902
†Scaphites geinitzii d'Orbigny 1850
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Invalid names: Scaphites geinitzii laevior Wright 1979 [invalid subgroup]
†Scaphites gillisi Anderson 1902
†Scaphites hippocrepis DeKay 1828
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Invalid names: Scaphites nanclasi Coquand 1859 [synonym]
†Scaphites mariasensis Cobban 1851
†Scaphites meriani Pictet and Campiche 1861
†Scaphites nigricollensis Cobban 1951
†Scaphites obliquus Sowerby 1813
†Scaphites patulus Cobban 1951
†Scaphites praecoquus Cobban 1951
†Scaphites roemeri d'Orbigny 1850
†Scaphites subdelicatulus Cobban and Gryc 1961
†Scaphites ventricosus Meek and Hayden 1862
Invalid names: Anascaphites Hyatt 1900 [synonym], Coloradoscaphites [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available