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Paraschistoceras optatum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae

Taxonomy
Paraschistoceras optatum was named by Ruzhentsev (1950). Its type specimen is PIN 320/1604, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sakmara River, cut 167 km, bed 11, which is in a Gzhelian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1950Paraschistoceras optatum Ruzhentsev p. 122 figs. Pl 6, figs 3-6; text-fig 44a, 45

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilySchistoceratoidea(Schmidt 1929)
familySchistoceratidaeSchmidt 1929
genusParaschistoceras
speciesoptatum

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.

†Paraschistoceras optatum Ruzhentsev 1950
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Diagnosis
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