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Verticillites

Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Verticillitidae

Taxonomy
Verticillites is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Verticillitida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Verticillitinae by Finks et al. (2004) and Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby (2015).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Verticillites Sepkoski
2004Verticillites Finks et al. p. 712
2015Verticillites Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby p. 390

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
orderVerticillitida
RankNameAuthor
familyVerticillitidaeSteinmann 1882
subfamilyVerticillitinaeSteinmann 1882
genusVerticillites

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available