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Pleuroceras spinatum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites spinata was named by Bruguière (1789).

It was corrected as Ammonites spinatus by d'Orbigny (1844), Oppel (1862); it was recombined as Pleuroceras spinatum by Howarth (1956), Géczy and Meister (1998), Bardin et al. (2013).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1789Ammonites spinata Bruguière p. 40
1813Ammonites franconicus Schlotheim p. 101
1820Ammonites costatus Schlotheim p. 68
1844Ammonites spinatus d'Orbigny p. 209
1862Ammonites spinatus Oppel p. 140
1956Pleuroceras spinatum Howarth
1998Pleuroceras spinatum Géczy and Meister p. 103 figs. Pl 6, fig 7
2013Pleuroceras spinatum Bardin et al. p. 328 figs. 7A, 8A-E

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyEoderoceratoidea(Spath 1929)
familyLiparoceratidaeHyatt 1867
subfamilyAmaltheinae(Hyatt 1867)
genusPleurocerasHyatt 1868
speciesspinatum(Bruguière 1789)

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.

Pleuroceras spinatum Bruguière 1789
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Invalid names: Ammonites costatus Schlotheim 1820 [synonym], Ammonites franconicus Schlotheim 1813 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available