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Mortoniceras

Taxonomy

Mortoniceras was named by Meek (1876) [Sepkoski's age data: K Albi-m K Albi-u]. Its type is Ammonites vespertinus.

It was assigned to Mortoniceratinae by Renz (1982) and Kennedy et al. (1998); and to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Sister genera

Synonyms

Inflaticeras was named by Stieler (1920).

It was synonymized subjectively with Mortoniceras by Wright et al. (1996).

It was assigned to Dipoloceratidae by Whitehouse (1926); and to Ammonoidea by Haas (1942).
Pervinquieria was named by Böhm (1910) [Sepkoski's age data: K Albi-u].

It was reranked as Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) by Spath (1932); it was synonymized objectively with Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) by Wright et al. (1996); it was synonymized subjectively with Mortoniceras by Bulot et al. (2005).

It was assigned to Mortoniceras by Spath (1932); to Dipoloceratidae by Haas (1942); and to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1876	Mortoniceras Meek
1910	Pervinquieria Böhm p. 152
1920	Inflaticeras Stieler
1926	Inflaticeras Whitehouse p. 224
1932	Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) Spath
1942	Pervinquieria Haas p. 66
1942	Inflaticeras Haas p. 72
1982	Mortoniceras Renz p. 32
1998	Mortoniceras Kennedy et al. p. 15
2002	Mortoniceras Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Pervinquieria Sepkoski, Jr.

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