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Uptonia

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae

Taxonomy
Uptonia was named by Buckman (1898) [Sepkoski's age data: J Plie-l Sepkoski's reference number: 302]. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); to Polymorphitidae by Donovan and Surlyk (2003) and Meister and Friebe (2003); and to Polymorphitinae by Bremer (1965), Frebold (1970), Thomson and Smith (1992) and Howarth (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1898Uptonia Buckman
1965Uptonia Bremer
1970Uptonia Frebold
1992Uptonia Thomson and Smith p. 15
2002Uptonia Sepkoski
2003Uptonia Donovan and Surlyk
2003Uptonia Meister and Friebe
2013Uptonia Howarth p. 53

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyEoderoceratoidea(Spath 1929)
familyPolymorphitidae
subfamilyPolymorphitinae
genusUptoniaBuckman 1898

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. †Uptonia Buckman 1898
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Uptonia angusta Quenstedt 1849
Uptonia bronni Roemer 1836
Uptonia costosa Quenstedt 1885
Uptonia dayiceroides Mouterde 1951
Uptonia ignota Simpson 1855
Uptonia inaequicosta Geczy 1976
Uptonia involuta Meister 1986
Uptonia jamesoni Sowerby 1827
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Invalid names: Ammonites vernosae Zittel 1869 [synonym]
Uptonia lata Parkinson 1811
Uptonia regnardi d'Orbigny 1844
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available