Basic info Taxonomic history Classification Included Taxa
Morphology Ecology and taphonomy External Literature Search Age range and collections

Grioceras skinneri

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae

Taxonomy
Peritrochia skinneri was named by Miller (1945). Its type specimen is SUI 3143, a shell (Internal mold), and it is a mold. Its type locality is Clay Slide, Glass Mountains (Skinner collection), which is in a Kungurian marine horizon in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Prostacheoceras skinneri by Lee (1980), Bogoslovskaya (1990) and Leonova (2002); it was recombined as Grioceras skinneri by Leonova (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1945Peritrochia skinneri Miller p. 18 figs. Pl 7, figs 5,6; text-fig 1
1980Prostacheoceras skinneri Lee p. 70 figs. Pl 3, figs 7-9; text-fig 2c
1990Prostacheoceras skinneri Bogoslovskaya p. 72
2002Prostacheoceras skinneri Leonova
2018Grioceras skinneri Leonova p. 240

Is something missing? Join the Paleobiology Database and enter the data

RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyCycloloboidea(Zittel 1895)
familyVidrioceratidae
subfamilyVidrioceratinaePlummer and Scott 1937
genusGrioceras(Toumanskaya 1939)
speciesskinneri()

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.

Grioceras skinneri Miller 1945
show all | hide all
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available