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Flexoptychites flexuosus

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae

Taxonomy
Ptychites flexuosus was named by von Mojsisovics (1882). It is not extant. Its type locality is Schreyeralm (Geol Reichsanstalt coll), which is in an Illyrian carbonate limestone in the Schreyeralm Formation of Austria.

It was recombined as Flexoptychites flexuosus by Spath (1951), Fantini Sestini (1988), Fantini Sestini (1996), Vörös (2010) and Vörös (2018).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
F. flexosus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Ptychites flexuosus von Mojsisovics p. 261 figs. Pl. 63, figs 2-8; Pl. 44, figs 1-3; Pl. 46, figs 2, 3
1915Ptychites flexuosus Arthaber
1951Flexoptychites flexuosus Spath p. 150
1988Flexoptychites flexuosus Fantini Sestini p. 66 figs. Pl 13, fig 6
1996Flexoptychites flexuosus Fantini Sestini
2010Flexoptychites flexuosus Vörös p. 13 figs. Pl. 3, figs 4, 5
2018Flexoptychites flexuosus Vörös p. 140 figs. Pl 43, figs 1-3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
superfamilyPinacoceratoidea(Mojsisovics 1879)
familyPtychitidae()
genusFlexoptychites
speciesflexuosus()

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.

†Flexoptychites flexuosus von Mojsisovics 1882
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available