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Metoicoceras mosbyense

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Metoicoceras mosbyense was named by Cobban (1953). Its type specimen is USNM 108315, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic 21484, Yellow Water Reservoir, which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in the Belle Fourche Formation of Montana.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Metoicoceras mosbyense Cobban p. 48 figs. Pl 6, figs 1-14; pl 7, figs 1-3
1957Metoicoceras defordi Young p. 1169 figs. Pl 149, figs 1-8; text-figs 1A,E,G,I
1990Metoicoceras mosbyense Kennedy and Cobban p. 408 figs. Pl 5, figs 13-16,23-38; pl 7, figs 1,2
1991Metoicoceras mosbyense Cobban and Kennedy p. B8 figs. Pl 4, figs 7,8; pl 5, figs 1-3, 15-17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyMammitinae()
genusMetoicocerasHyatt 1903
speciesmosbyense

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.

†Metoicoceras mosbyense Cobban 1953
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Invalid names: Metoicoceras defordi Young 1957 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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