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Eothinites hessensis

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Taxonomy
Eothinites hessensis was named by Miller and Furnish (1940). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is R.E. King 223, Old Word Ranch, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Hess Formation of Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Eothinites hessensis Miller and Furnish p. 102 figs. Pl 11, figs 3,4
2002Eothinites hessensis Leonova

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyNeoicoceratoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyMetalegoceratidae
subfamilyEothinitinae()
genusEothinitesRuzhencev 1933
specieshessensis

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.

†Eothinites hessensis Miller and Furnish 1940
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Diagnosis
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