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Otoscaphites reidi

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Taxonomy
Otoscaphites reidi was named by Wright (1979). Its type specimen is IGS Zr7952, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pit behind Broom & Wade factory, High Wycombe, which is in a Turonian carbonate chalk in the Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. auritus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Otoscaphites reidi Wright p. 307 figs. Pl 3, figs 17,18; pl 7, fig 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyScaphitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyScaphitidaeGill 1871
subfamilyOtoscaphitinaeWright 1953
genusOtoscaphites
speciesreidi

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.

†Otoscaphites reidi Wright 1979
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Diagnosis
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