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Ringsteadia marstonensis

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae

Taxonomy
Ringsteadia marstonensis was named by Salfeld (1917). Its type specimen is NHM C15427, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South Marston (Marston Ironstone, BMNH), which is in an Oxfordian carbonate limestone in the Ampthill Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Ringsteadia marstonensis Salfeld p. 83 figs. Pl 11, fig 1
2010Ringsteadia marstonensis Wright p. 35 figs. Pl 1, fig 4; pl 3, figs 5,6; pl 4, fig 3; text-figs 6A,C, 7G,H

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyAulacostephanidaeSpath 1924
genusRingsteadia
speciesmarstonensisSalfeld 1917

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.

†Ringsteadia marstonensis Salfeld 1917
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Diagnosis
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