Jeletzkytes
| Jeletzkytes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | |
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| Jeletzkytes, a Cretaceous ammonite from the United States | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Family: | Scaphitidae |
| Genus: | Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983 |
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Jeletzkytes is an extinct genus of scaphatoid ammonite cephalopod molluscs from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of North America named and described by Riccardi, 1983. In overall form Jeletzkytes closely resembles the genus Scaphites. Species include J. compressus, J. criptonodosus, J. dorfi, J. nebrascensis, J. nodosus, J. plenus, and J. spedeni.
References
- Jeletzkytes, Paleobiology Database. 13 Mar. 2013.
- Neil H. Landman, Karl M Waage (Karl Mensch); Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 215, 1993.
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