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Glaphyrites modestus

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae

Taxonomy
Gastrioceras modestum was named by Böse (1919). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wolf Camp, Glass Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Gaptank Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Glaphyrites.

It was recombined as Eoasianites modestus by Miller and Furnish (1940); it was recombined as Glaphyrites modestus by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1971), Leonova (2002) and Sabattini et al. (2006).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Gastrioceras modestum Böse p. 83 figs. Pl 2, figs 4-27
1940Eoasianites modestus Miller and Furnish p. 80 figs. Pl 12, figs 4-9; pl 13, fig 7
1971Glaphyrites modestus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 286
2002Glaphyrites modestus Leonova
2006Glaphyrites modestus Sabattini et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyGastrioceratoidea()
familyGlaphyritidae
subfamilyGlaphyritinae
genusGlaphyritesRuzhencev 1936
speciesmodestus()

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.

Glaphyrites modestus Böse 1919
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Diagnosis
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