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Coilopoceras inflatum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae

Taxonomy
Coilopoceras inflatum was named by Cobban and Hook (1980). Its type specimen is USNM 275920, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic D2055, Cebollita Mesa, Cibola, which is in a Turonian marine shale in the Mancos Shale Formation of New Mexico.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. leseli

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1980Coilopoceras inflatum Cobban and Hook p. 19 figs. Pl 1, figs 9-11; pl 11, fig 2; pls 12-17; pl 18, figs 1-3,11-13; pls 20, 21; text-figs 14,15
1992Coilopoceras inflatum Meister et al. p. 86 figs. Pl 10, fig 3; pl 11, figs 1,2; text-fig 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyCoilopoceratidae
genusCoilopoceras
speciesinflatum

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.

†Coilopoceras inflatum Cobban and Hook 1980
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Diagnosis
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