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Pseudotirolites acutus

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Pseudotirolitidae

Taxonomy
Pseudotirolites acutus was named by Chao and Liang (1965). Its type specimen is NIGP 14922 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Liuhualing, Qianjiang, Laibin County, which is in a Changhsingian deep-water siliciclastic in the Dalong Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. uniformis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Pseudotirolites acutus Chao and Liang figs. Pl 2, fig 17
1978Pseudotirolites acutus Zhao et al. p. 125 figs. Pl 17, fig 9; pl 18, figs 2,7; pl 20, fig 5; text-fig 74a
1989Pseudotirolites acutus Sheng p. 197 figs. Pl 20, fig 5; pl 21, figs 4,5
2002Pseudotirolites acutus Leonova

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
suborderParaceltitinaShevyrev 1968
superfamilyXenodiscoidea(Frech 1902)
familyPseudotirolitidaeZhao 1965
genusPseudotirolitesSun 1933
speciesacutusChao and Liang 1965

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.

†Pseudotirolites acutus Chao and Liang 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available