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Sicanites notabilis

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Artinskia notabilis was named by Ruzhentsev (1940). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Aktasty River, locality 10, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian carbonate limestone in the Aktasty Formation of Kazakhstan.

It was recombined as Aktubinskia notabilis by Ruzhentsev (1956) and Leonova (2002); it was recombined as Sicanites notabilis by Zhou and Liengjarern (2004) and Zhou (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Artinskia notabilis Ruzhentsev p. 320 figs. 1a-e
1956Aktubinskia notabilis Ruzhentsev p. 112 figs. Pl 4, figs 1-3
2002Aktubinskia notabilis Leonova
2004Sicanites notabilis Zhou and Liengjarern p. 327 figs. 7.5-7.7,9.5,9.6
2017Sicanites notabilis Zhou p. 43 figs. 25.1-25.3, 26.1, 26.2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderProlecanitidaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyMedlicottioidea(Karpinsky 1889)
familyMedlicottiidae
subfamilySicanitinaeNoetling 1904
genusSicanites
speciesnotabilis(Ruzhentsev 1940)

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.

Sicanites notabilis Ruzhentsev 1940
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Diagnosis
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