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Glaphyrites fayettevillae

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae

Taxonomy
Cravenoceras fayettevillae was named by Gordon (1964). Its type specimen is USNM 119518, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 14391, East (Sequoyah) Mountain, which is in a Pendleian marine shale in the Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas.

It was recombined as Glaphyrites fayettevillae by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1971).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
G. operosus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Cravenoceras fayettevillae Gordon p. 207 figs. Pl 21, figs 16,21-26; text-figs 52E,F, 54D, 56
1971Glaphyrites fayettevillae Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 286

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyGastrioceratoidea()
familyGlaphyritidae
subfamilyGlaphyritinae
genusGlaphyritesRuzhencev 1936
speciesfayettevillae()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available