Otoites
| Otoites Temporal range: Bajocian[1] | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Stephanocerataceae |
| Family: | Otoitidae |
| Genus: | Otoites Mascke, 1907[2] |
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Otoites is the type genus of the ammonite family Otoitidae that live during the Middle Jurassic.[1][3]
The Otoitidae, which is part of the superfamily Stephanocerataceae, are part of the well known subclass of prehistoric cephalopods known in general terms as ammonites[3]
Otoites is characterized by barrel-shaped, cadiconic, inner whorls and contracted last whorl; coarse ribs with long secondaries that come off of low lateral tubercles; and lappets flanking the aperture. [3]
Distribution
The Jurassic of Spain [4]
References
- 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ↑ Dietze, V.; et al. (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany" (PDF). Zitteliana 50: 71–88.
- 1 2 3 Arkell et al, 1957; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; Geological Society of America and Univsity of Kansas press. part L (L232,L287)
- ↑ "Paleobiology Database - Otoites". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
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