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Plesiospitidiscus subdifficilis

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Taxonomy
Desmoceras subdifficile was named by Karakasch (1907).

It was recombined as Plesiospitidiscus subdifficilis by Cecca et al. (1998).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Desmoceras subdifficile Karakasch
1998Plesiospitidiscus subdifficilis Cecca et al. p. 73 figs. Pl 2, figs 1-4; text-fig 6e, 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familyDesmoceratidaeZittel 1895
subfamilyBarremitinaeBreskovski 1977
genusPlesiospitidiscus
speciessubdifficilis(Karakasch 1907)

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
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