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Paratropites arcticus

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Tropitidae

Taxonomy
Paratropites arcticus was named by Tozer (1994). Its type specimen is GSC 72189 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 35611, Lyall Point, Cameron Island, which is in a Tuvalian marine siliciclastic in the Schei Point Formation of Canada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. sulcatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Paratropites arcticus Tozer p. 216 figs. Pl 103, figs 7-9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
superfamilyTropitaceae(Mojsisovics 1875)
familyTropitidaeMojsisovics 1875
genusParatropites(Mojsisovics 1893)
speciesarcticus

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.

†Paratropites arcticus Tozer 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available