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Extinct family of ammonites From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Scaphitidae | |
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Scaphites species fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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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Scaphitidae Gill, 1871
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