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Oosterella cultrata

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oosterellidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites cultratus was named by d'Orbigny (1841) [DISTRIBUTION: Hauterivian; Europe.]. It is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Oosterella.

It was recombined as Oosterella cultratus by Avram and Gradinaru (1993) and Vasicek (2002); it was recombined as Oosterella cultrata by Reboulet (1996) and Gonzalez-Arreola and Barragan (2007).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Ammonites cultratus d'Orbigny
1993Oosterella cultratus Avram and Gradinaru p. 675
1996Oosterella cultrata Reboulet p. 142 figs. Pl 27, figs 7-17
2002Oosterella cultratus Vasicek p. 188
2007Oosterella cultrata Gonzalez-Arreola and Barragan p. 423 fig. 3K,L

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctaceaeSteinman 1890
familyOosterellidaeKilian 1911
genusOosterellaKilian 1911
speciescultrata(d'Orbigny 1841)

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.

Oosterella cultrata d'Orbigny 1841
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Diagnosis
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