Pseudosirenites
Appearance
Pseudosirenites | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ceratitida |
Family: | †Trachyceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Sirenitinae |
Genus: | †Pseudosirenites Arthaber, 1911 |
Pseudosirenites is a genus of Upper Triassic ammonites belonging to the ceratitid family Trachyceratidae, like Sirenites, but with a narrow outer rim (venter) that has a nodose keel on either side.
References
[edit]- Arkell, et al., Mesozoic Ammonoidea, ' Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4, Geological Society of America. 1957.