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Mapesites chautauquaensis

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae

Taxonomy
Mapesites chautauquaensis was named by Work and Boardman (2003). Its type specimen is SUI 62428, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Little Pawnee at Peru, Kansas, which is in a Virgilian coastal shale in the Cass Limestone Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Mapesites.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Mapesites chautauquaensis Work and Boardman p. 1195 figs. 1.1, 1.2, 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyThalassoceratoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyThalassoceratidaeHyatt 1900
subfamilyGleboceratinae
genusMapesites
specieschautauquaensis

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.

†Mapesites chautauquaensis Work and Boardman 2003
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available