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Prochorites alveolatus

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Acanthoclymeniidae

Taxonomy
Probeloceras alveolatum was named by Glenister (1958). Its type specimen is CPC 1727, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is BMR K Dup 126, Old Bohemia Homestead, which is in a Frasnian marine horizon in the Gogo Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Prochorites.

It was recombined as Prochorites alveolatus by Korn and Klug (2002) and House and Kirchgasser (2008).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Probeloceras alveolatum Glenister p. 69 figs. Pl 15, figs 2,3; text-figs 3A,B
1975Probeloceras strix Kirchgasser p. 83 figs. Pl 1, figs 6-12,15; pl 3, figs 15-20; text-figs 6,7B,8B,10
2002Probeloceras strix Korn and Klug p. 121
2002Prochorites alveolatus Korn and Klug p. 121
2008Prochorites alveolatus House and Kirchgasser p. 109 figs. Pl 7, figs 4-6; text-figs 31, 32C

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderGephuroceratinaRuzhencev 1957
superfamilyGephurocerataceaeFrech 1897
familyAcanthoclymeniidaeSchindewolf 1955
subfamilyAcanthoclymeniinaeSchindewolf 1955
genusProchoritesClausen 1969
speciesalveolatus()

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.

Prochorites alveolatus Glenister 1958
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Invalid names: Probeloceras strix Kirchgasser 1975 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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