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Imitoceras oxydentale

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae

Taxonomy
Imitoceras oxydentale was named by Bockwinkel and Ebbighausen (2006). Its type specimen is MfN MB.C.3831.1, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Jebel Debouaa, Mfis, Bed 9, Tafilalt, Anti-Atlas, which is in a Tournaisian coastal shale in Morocco.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
I. carinatum, I. disciforme, I. discoidale, I. liratum

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Imitoceras oxydentale Bockwinkel and Ebbighausen p. 108 figs. 24C,D,G,H, 25

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderTornoceratinaWedekind 1918
superfamilyPrionoceratoidea()
familyPrionoceratidaeHyatt 1884
subfamilyImitoceratinae()
genusImitocerasSchindewolf 1923
speciesoxydentale

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.

†Imitoceras oxydentale Bockwinkel and Ebbighausen 2006
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Diagnosis
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