Arctotirolites
Appearance
Arctotirolites | |
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Fossil specimen, Geological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ceratitida |
Family: | †Xenodiscidae |
Genus: | †Arctotirolites Popov 1963 |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Arctotirolites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the ammonite subclass. It was described by Popov in 1963, based on a single specimen found in the Olenyok River basin, in the Olenikites zone of northern Siberia.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Arctotirolites". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ Kummel, Bernhard (September 27, 1968). "Ammonoids of the Late Scythian (Lower Triassic)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 137 (3). Harvard University: 477.