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Ptychites hamatus

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae

Taxonomy
Ptychites hamatus was named by Tozer (1994). Its type specimen is GSC 28401 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 83875, northwest of Hook Lake, which is in an Illyrian marine horizon in the Sulphur Mountain Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Ptychites hamatus Tozer p. 134 figs. Pl 65, figs 13,14; pl 67, figs 1-4; pl 71, figs 2a,b; text-figs 48d, 50a, 54b

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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
specieshamatus

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Ptychites hamatus Tozer 1994
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Diagnosis
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