Cadomites
| Cadomites Temporal range: from Bajocian to Callovian, [1]171.6–164.7 Ma | |
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| Fossil shell of Cadomites species from Calvados (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Stephanocerataceae |
| Family: | Stephanoceratidae |
| Genus: | Cadomites Munier-Chalmas 1892 |
Cadomites is an extinct ammonite genus from the superfamily Stephanocerataceae that lived during the Middle Jurassic (upper Bajocian – lower Callovian).[1]
Description
Cadomites is directly descended from Stephanoceras, with a similar collared and lipped aperture rim, but has denser, finer, sharper ribbing. The shell is discoidal, evolute, with a wide umbilicus. The suture is complex.
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Middle Jurassic sediments in Europe, Africa and South Asia.
References
- 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ↑ The Paleobiology Database
- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea, -Sephanocerataceae; Geological Society of America, 1957, reprinted 1990.
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