Clioscaphites
Appearance
Clioscaphites | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
Family: | †Scaphitidae |
Genus: | †Clioscaphites Cobban 2005 |
Species[1][2] | |
C. choteauensis |
Clioscaphites is an extinct genus of ammonite belonging to the family Scaphitidae.[1] Species in this genus are important index fossils of the Western Interior Seaway of the Coniacian to Santonian Ages of the Cretaceous.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Tanabe, K. (1977). "Mid-Cretaceous scaphitid ammonites from Hokkaido". Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers. 21: 11–22.
- ^ a b Cobban, W.A.; Dyman, T.S.; Porter, K.W. (June 2005). "Paleontology and stratigraphy of upper Coniacian–middle Santonian ammonite zones and application to erosion surfaces and marine transgressive strata in Montana and Alberta". Cretaceous Research. 26 (3): 429–449. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2005.01.007.