Scaphitidae

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 a fossil dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Turkmenistan.

Scaphitidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous, Albian–Maastrichtian Possible Danian survival on Scaphites
Scaphites species fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Superfamily: Scaphitoidea
Gill, 1871
Family: Scaphitidae
Gill, 1871
Subfamilies

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Genera

Scaphitidae Gill, 1871

  • Subfamily Otoscaphitinae Wright, 1953
  • Subfamily Scaphitinae Gill, 1871
  • Subfamily Incertae sedis
    • Worthoceras Adkins, 1928[1]

References


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