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Mesobeloceras thomasi

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Beloceratidae

Taxonomy
Mesobeloceras thomasi was named by Glenister (1958). Its type specimen is CPC 1742, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is BMR Du 479, Horse Spring, which is in a Frasnian marine horizon in the Fossil Downs Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Mesobeloceras.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. iynx

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Mesobeloceras thomasi Glenister p. 83 figs. Pl 8, fig 2; pl 10, fig 6; text-figs 12A,B, 13B
2002Mesobeloceras thomasi Korn and Klug p. 123

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderGephuroceratinaRuzhencev 1957
superfamilyBelocerataceae
familyBeloceratidae
genusMesobeloceras
speciesthomasi

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.

†Mesobeloceras thomasi Glenister 1958
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Diagnosis
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