| Xenodrepanites Temporal range: U Trias |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Superfamily: | Clydonitaceae |
| Family: | Arpaditidae |
| Genus: | Xenodrepanites Diener (1916) |
Xenodrepanites is an extent ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the Ceratitida from the Upper Triassic of the Himalayas. Xenodrepanites has a very compressed, discoidal shell with a ventral furrow bordered by crenulated keels and a sub-ammonitic suture.[1]
Some put Xenodrepanites in the Clydonitacan family, Cyrtopleuritidae[2] instead.