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Subprionocyclus hitchinensis

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae

Taxonomy
Prionocyclus hitchinensis was named by Billinghurst (1927). Its type specimen is BMNH C32292, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hill End Farm Pit, Hitch Wood (Billinghurst collection), which is in a Turonian carbonate chalk in the Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Subprionocyclus hitchinensis by Wright (1979) and Kennedy and Gale (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1927Prionocyclus hitchinensis Billinghurst p. 516 figs. Pl 16, figs 1,2
1979Subprionocyclus hitchinensis Wright p. 318 figs. Pl 5, figs 7-10,13
2015Subprionocyclus hitchinensis Kennedy and Gale p. 515 fig. 5I

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyCollignoniceratidaeWright and Wright 1951
subfamilyCollignoniceratinaeWright and Wright 1951
genusSubprionocyclus
specieshitchinensis()

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.

Subprionocyclus hitchinensis Billinghurst 1927
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Diagnosis
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