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Metalegoceras pamiricum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Taxonomy
Metalegoceras pamiricum was named by Leonova (1989). Its type specimen is PIN 3591/282, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shindy River, bed 4, Pamir Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine horizon in the Kochusu Formation of Tajikistan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Metalegoceras pamiricum Leonova p. 122 figs. Pl 6, fig 3; text-fig 44b
2002Metalegoceras pamiricum Leonova

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyNeoicoceratoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyMetalegoceratidae
subfamilyMetalegoceratinaePlummer and Scott 1937
genusMetalegocerasSchindewolf 1931
speciespamiricum

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.

†Metalegoceras pamiricum Leonova 1989
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