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Ptychites wrighti

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae

Taxonomy
Ptychites wrighti was named by McLearn (1946). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 10731, McTaggart Creek, which is in a Pelsonian marine siliciclastic in the Toad Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1946Ptychites wrighti McLearn p. 9
1969Ptychites wrighti McLearn p. 56 figs. Pl 10, figs 1a-c; text-fig 31
1994Ptychites wrighti Tozer p. 134 figs. Pl 48, figs 3,4
2020Ptychites wrighti Bischof and Lehmann p. 834 figs. 3.1-3.4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
superfamilyPinacoceratoidea(Mojsisovics 1879)
familyPtychitidae()
genusPtychitesMojsisovics 1875
specieswrightiMcLearn 1946

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.

Ptychites wrighti McLearn 1946
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