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Phylloptychoceras sipho

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae

Taxonomy
Ptychoceras sipho was named by Forbes (1846). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pondicherry, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/claystone in the Valudavur Formation of India. It is the type species of Phylloptychoceras.

It was recombined as Phylloptychoceras sipho by Spath (1953), Kennedy and Henderson (1992) and Ward and Kennedy (1993).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Ptychoceras sipho Forbes p. 118 figs. Pl 11, fig 5
1953Phylloptychoceras sipho Spath p. 16
1992Phylloptychoceras sipho Kennedy and Henderson p. 387
1993Phylloptychoceras sipho Ward and Kennedy p. 51 figs. 18.8, 43.3, 43.4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyDiplomoceratidaeSpath 1926
subfamilyPolyptychoceratinaeMatsumoto 1938
genusPhylloptychoceras
speciessipho()

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.

†Phylloptychoceras sipho Forbes 1846
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Diagnosis
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