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Witchellia australica

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Sonniniidae

Taxonomy
Witchellia australica was named by Arkell (1954). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Fossil Hill (706333), which is in a Bajocian shallow subtidal limestone in the Newmarracarra Limestone Formation of Australia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
W. falcata, W. sutneri, W. evoluta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1954Witchellia australica Arkell p. 561 figs. 4, 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyHildoceratoidea(Hyatt 1867)
familySonniniidaeBuckman 1892
subfamilyWitchelliinaeCallomon and Chandler 2006
genusWitchelliaBuckman 1889
speciesaustralica

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.

†Witchellia australica Arkell 1954
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available