Scaphitidae

Scaphitidae
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous-Early Paleocene, Almost certain Danian survival of Hoploscaphites
Scaphites species fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Suborder: †Ancyloceratina
Superfamily: †
Gill, 1871
Family: †
Gill, 1871
Subfamilies

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Scaphitidae is a family of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). There is a possible fossil record of them being the last ammonites with fossils dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Denmark, the Netherlands, the US and Turkmenistan.

Genera

Scaphitidae Gill, 1871

References

  1. ^ Paleobiology Database


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