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Euflemingites cirratus

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Flemingitidae

Taxonomy
Arcestes cirratus was named by White (1879). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is John Gray's Lake (locality 1), Unit D, which is in a Smithian carbonate limestone in the Thaynes Formation of Idaho.

It was recombined as Flemingites cirratus by Smith (1932); it was recombined as Euflemingites cirratus by Spath (1934), Nichols and Silberling (1979), Tozer (1994) and Brühwiler and Bucher (2011).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Arcestes cirratus White p. 116
1932Flemingites cirratus Smith p. 53 figs. Plate 20, Figure 1; Plate 26, Figures 1-12
1934Euflemingites cirratus Spath
1959Euflemingites tsotengensis Chao p. 209 figs. Pl 5, figs 1-2
1979Euflemingites cirratus Nichols and Silberling figs. Pl 3, figs 1-4
1994Euflemingites cirratus Tozer p. 72 figs. Pl 22, figs 13a,b; pl 23, figs 4,5
2011Euflemingites cirratus Brühwiler and Bucher p. 197 figs. Pl 2, figs 1-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
superfamilyMeekocerataceaeWaagen 1895
familyFlemingitidaeHyatt 1900
genusEuflemingites
speciescirratus()

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.

Euflemingites cirratus White 1879
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Invalid names: Euflemingites tsotengensis Chao 1959 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available