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Eowellerites moorei

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Welleritidae

Taxonomy
Bendoceras moorei was named by Plummer and Scott (1937). Its type specimen is B.E.G. P-4847 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UTBEG 153-T-6, San Saba highway, 5.6 km east and 1.4 km south of Rochelle, which is in a Moscovian marine shale in the Smithwick Formation of Texas.

It was synonymized subjectively with Paralegoceras texanum by Miller and Furnish (1940); it was recombined as Eowellerites moorei by Gordon (1964).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Bendoceras moorei Plummer and Scott p. 216 figs. Pl 11, figs 14-16
1964Eowellerites moorei Gordon p. 274 fig. 87C

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilySchistoceratoidea(Schmidt 1929)
familyWelleritidae
subfamilyWelleritinaePlummer and Scott 1937
genusEowelleritesRuzhencev 1957
speciesmoorei()

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.

Eowellerites moorei Plummer and Scott 1937
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Diagnosis
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