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Bostrychoceras polyplocum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae

Taxonomy
Turrilites polyplocus was named by Roemer (1841). It is the type species of Bostrychoceras, Bostrychoceras.

It was recombined as Nostoceras (Bostrychoceras) polyplocum by Kennedy (1986) and Küchler and Odin (2001); it was recombined as Bostrychoceras polyplocum by Hyatt (1900), Atabekyan and Khakimov (1976), Kennedy and Summesberger (1999), Arkadiev et al. (2000) and Ifrim et al. (2015).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Turrilites polyplocus Roemer p. 92 figs. Pl 14, fig 1
1900Bostrychoceras polyplocum Hyatt p. 588
1963Bostrychoceras secoense Young p. 42 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-5; pl 4, figs 4-8; text-fig 7s
1976Bostrychoceras polyplocum Atabekyan and Khakimov p. 54 figs. Pl 6, figs 1-4; pl 7, figs 1,2
1986Nostoceras (Bostrychoceras) polyplocum Kennedy p. 92 figs. Pl 6, fig 1; pl 15, figs 1-3,5-8
1999Bostrychoceras polyplocum Kennedy and Summesberger p. 26 figs. Pl 2, figs 4,5
2000Bostrychoceras polyplocum Arkadiev et al. p. 117 figs. Pl 12, figs 3-5
2001Nostoceras (Bostrychoceras) polyplocum Küchler and Odin p. 502 figs. Pl 1, figs 3-6; pl 2, figs 1-3
2015Bostrychoceras polyplocum Ifrim et al. p. 243 figs. 5J-K, 13A-I, 14A-K

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyNostoceratidaeHyatt 1894
genusBostrychoceras
speciespolyplocum(Roemer 1841)

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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Invalid names: Bostrychoceras secoense Young 1963 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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