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Collignoniceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae

Taxonomy

Collignoniceras was named by Breistroffer (1947) [Sepkoski's age data: K Turo-l K Turo-u]. It is the type genus of Collignoniceratidae, Collignoniceratinae.

It was reranked as Prionocyclus (Collignoniceras) by Jeletzky (1970).

It was assigned to Prionocyclus by Jeletzky (1970); to Collignoniceratidae by Kennedy and Cobban (1988); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Collignoniceratinae by Matsumoto (1959), Futakami (1990), Summesberger (1992), Kennedy et al. (2001) and Kennedy and Gale (2016).

Species

C. bravaisianum (syn. Schloenbachia bakeri, Prionotropis teshioensis), C. carolinum, C. jorgenseni, C. klamathensis, C. percarinatum, C. praecox, C. vermilionense, C. woollgari, Prionotropis caurinus, Prionotropis hiltensis, Selwynoceras mexicanum (syn. Pseudaspidoceras chispaense)

Species lacking formal opinion data

C. collignoni, C. collisniger

Synonyms

Prionotropis was named by Meek (1876) [Replaced by Collignoniceras; Prionotropis Meek 1876 is a homonym of Prionotropis Fieber 1853 (a grasshopper).].

It was reranked as Acanthoceras (Prionotropis) by Boule et al. (1907); it was replaced with Collignoniceras by Wright (1952) and Kennedy et al. (2001).

It was assigned to Acanthoceras by Boule et al. (1907).
Selwynoceras was named by Warren and Stelck (1940) [Sepkoski's age data: K Turo].

It was reranked as Collignoniceras (Selwynoceras) by van Hoepen (1968); it was replaced with Collignoniceras by Kennedy et al. (2001).

It was assigned to Collignoniceras by van Hoepen (1968); and to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1876	Prionotropis Meek p. 453
1907	Acanthoceras (Prionotropis) Boule et al. p. 12
1940	Selwynoceras Warren and Stelck p. 151
1947	Collignoniceras Breistroffer
1959	Collignoniceras Matsumoto p. 104
1968	Collignoniceras (Selwynoceras) van Hoepen p. 161
1970	Prionocyclus (Collignoniceras) Jeletzky figs. pl. 26, fig. 9
1988	Collignoniceras Kennedy and Cobban p. 604
1990	Collignoniceras Futakami p. 236
1992	Collignoniceras Summesberger p. 118
2001	Collignoniceras Kennedy et al. p. 41
2002	Collignoniceras Sepkoski
2002	Selwynoceras Sepkoski
2016	Collignoniceras Kennedy and Gale p. 289

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Ammonoidea	()
order	Ammonitida
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Acanthoceratoidea	(de Grossouvre 1894)
family	Collignoniceratidae	Wright and Wright 1951
subfamily	Collignoniceratinae	Wright and Wright 1951
genus	Collignoniceras	Breistroffer 1947

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. †Collignoniceras Breistroffer 1947

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†Collignoniceras bravaisianum d'Orbigny 1841

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Invalid names: Prionotropis teshioensis Yabe and Shimizu 1925 [synonym], Schloenbachia bakeri Anderson 1902 [synonym]

†Collignoniceras carolinum d'Orbigny 1841

†Collignoniceras jorgenseni Kennedy et al. 2001

†Collignoniceras klamathensis Anderson 1958

†Collignoniceras percarinatum Hall and Meek 1856

†Collignoniceras praecox Haas 1946

†Collignoniceras vermilionense Meek and Hayden 1860

†Collignoniceras woollgari Mantell 1822

Invalid names: Prionotropis Meek 1876 [replaced], Selwynoceras Warren and Stelck 1940 [replaced]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available