Zenostephanus

Zenostephanus
Temporal range: U Jura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Suborder: Ammonitina
Superfamily: Perisphinctaceae
Family: Perisphinctidae
Genus: Zenostephanus
Arkell& Callomon,(1963)

Zenostephanus is true ammonite genus from the lower part of the Upper Jurassic of eastern England and Scotland belonging to the ammonitid family, Perisphinctidae.[1]

Zenostephanus is revised from Xenostephanus, a preoccupied name for a new genus of toxodont notoungulate from Argentina.[2] The type is Aulacostephanus ranbyensis

References

  1. ↑ revised name for Xenostephanus
  2. ↑ Zenostephanus new name
  • Perisphinctidae in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4.


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