Scaphitidae
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| Scaphitidae | |
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| Scaphites species fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
| Superfamily: | †Scaphitoidea Gill, 1871 |
| Family: | †Scaphitidae Gill, 1871 |
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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
[edit | edit source]Scaphitidae Gill, 1871
- Subfamily Otoscaphitinae Wright, 1953
- Yezoites Yabe, 1910
- Subfamily Scaphitinae Gill, 1871
- Acanthoscaphites Nowak, 1911
- Clioscaphites Cobban, 1951
- Discoscaphites Meek, 1870
- Eoscaphites Breistroffer, 1947
- Hoploscaphites Nowak, 1911
- Indoscaphites Spath, 1953
- Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983
- Ponteixites Warren, 1934
- Rhaeboceras Meek, 1876
- Scaphites Parkinson, 1811
- Trachyscaphites Cobban & Scott, 1964
- Subfamily Incertae sedis
- Worthoceras Adkins, 1928[1]
References
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