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Ophiceras
Taxonomy
Ophiceras was named by Griesbach (1880) [Sepkoski's age data: Tr Indu-l Sepkoski's reference number: 302].
It was assigned to Ophioceratidae by Tozer (1981); to Ceratitida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ophiceratidae by Spath (1934), Kapoor and Bando (1974), Tozer (1994), Tongtherm et al. (2016), Zhang et al. (2017), Ware and Bucher (2018) and Dai et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Ophioceratidae by Tozer (1981); to Ceratitida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ophiceratidae by Spath (1934), Kapoor and Bando (1974), Tozer (1994), Tongtherm et al. (2016), Zhang et al. (2017), Ware and Bucher (2018) and Dai et al. (2019).
Species
O. (Acanthophiceras) poulseni, O. (Acanthophiceras) subgibbosum, O. bilotense, O. commune, O. connectens, O. crassecostatum, O. dharma, O. gibbosum, O. greenlandicum, O. medium (syn. O. sakuntala, O. tingi, O. ptychodes, O. chamunda, O. platyspira), O. stricturatum, O. subsakuntala, O. tibeticum (syn. O. serpentinum), O. transitorium
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1880 | Ophiceras Griesbach p. 109 |
| 1916 | Acanthophiceras Diener |
| 1934 | Ophiceras Spath |
| 1934 | Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) Spath |
| 1935 | Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) Spath p. 39 |
| 1974 | Ophiceras Kapoor and Bando |
| 1981 | Ophiceras Tozer p. 89 |
| 1994 | Ophiceras Tozer p. 56 |
| 2002 | Ophiceras Sepkoski |
| 2016 | Ophiceras Tongtherm et al. |
| 2017 | Ophiceras Zhang et al. p. 654 |
| 2018 | Ophiceras Ware and Bucher |
| 2019 | Ophiceras Dai et al. p. 49 |
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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. †Ophiceras Griesbach 1880
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†Ophiceras bilotense Reed 1944
†Ophiceras commune Spath 1930
†Ophiceras connectens Schindewolf 1954
†Ophiceras crassecostatum Welter 1922
†Ophiceras dharma Diener 1897
†Ophiceras gibbosum Griesbach 1880
†Ophiceras greenlandicum Spath 1930
†Ophiceras medium Griesbach 1880
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†Lytophiceras chamunda evoluta Frech 1902
Invalid names: Ophiceras chamunda Diener 1897 [synonym], Ophiceras platyspira Diener 1897 [synonym], Ophiceras ptychodes Diener 1897 [synonym], Ophiceras sakuntala Diener 1897 [synonym], Ophiceras tingi Tien 1933 [synonym]
†Ophiceras stricturatum Frech 1905
†Ophiceras subsakuntala Spath 1935
†Ophiceras transitorium Spath 1930
Invalid names: Acanthophiceras Diener 1916 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available