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Winchelloceras knappi

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae

Taxonomy
Winchelloceras knappi was named by Work and Mason (2004). Its type specimen is SUI 11971, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is New Providence Sh. Member, Coral Ridge, KY quarry, which is in a Chadian offshore shale in the Borden Formation of Kentucky.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2004Winchelloceras knappi Work and Mason p. 1133 figs. 4.3, 4.4, 4.11, 4.12, 7, 8.1, 8.2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyGirtyocerataceaeWedekind 1918
familyGirtyoceratidaeWedekind 1918
subfamilyGirtyoceratinaeWedekind 1918
genusWinchellocerasRuzhencev 1965
speciesknappi

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.

†Winchelloceras knappi Work and Mason 2004
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Diagnosis
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