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Muensteroceras pisiforme

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Muensteroceratidae

Taxonomy
Muensteroceras pisiforme was named by Gordon (1964). Its type specimen is USNM 119489, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM 3301, East (Sequoyah) Mountain, which is in a Pendleian marine shale in the Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. modestum, M. rotella

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Muensteroceras pisiforme Gordon p. 180 figs. Pl 17, figs 25-28, 30-33; text-fig 40

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyPericycloidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyMuensteroceratidaeLibrovitch 1957
genusMuensteroceras
speciespisiforme

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.

†Muensteroceras pisiforme Gordon 1964
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Diagnosis
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