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Virgatosphinctes sanchezi

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae

Taxonomy
Virgatosphinctes sanchezi was named by Verma and Westermann (1973). Its type specimen is McM J 1528/2, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 40C (McM-J1528), El Pastor, Sierra Catorce, which is in a Tithonian carbonate limestone in the La Caja Formation of Mexico.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Perisphinctes dacquei, Perisphinctes polygyratus, V. andesensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Virgatosphinctes sanchezi Verma and Westermann p. 185 figs. Pl 32; pl 33; pl 34, figs; text-fig 15

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyPerisphinctidaeSteinmann 1890
subfamilyVirgatosphinctinaeSpath 1923
genusVirgatosphinctes
speciessanchezi

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.

†Virgatosphinctes sanchezi Verma and Westermann 1973
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available