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Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) manuanense

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae

Taxonomy
Pseudophacoceras manuanense was named by Spath (1925). Its type specimen is SAM-PCZ19474, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Munywana (Manuan) Creek, which is in an Albian marine siliciclastic in the Mzinene Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Manuaniceras.

It was recombined as Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) manuanense by Kennedy and Klinger (2011).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. multifidum, O. pandalense, O. robustum, O. roissyi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Pseudophacoceras manuanense Spath p. 281 figs. Pl 25, fig 1
2011Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) manuanense Kennedy and Klinger p. 72 figs. 1M,N, 4A-E, 5A,C-E, 6-9, 10A,B, 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyMojsisovicsiidaeHyatt 1903
subfamilyMojsisovicziinaeHyatt 1903
genusOxytropidocerasStieler 1920
subgenusManuaniceras(Spath 1925)
speciesmanuanense(Spath 1925)

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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