Yezoites
Yezoites Temporal range: Coniacian- Santonian | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Ancyloceratida |
Family: | Scaphitidae |
Genus: | Yezoites |
Yezoites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods from the Upper Cretaceous that has been assigned to the Scaphitidae of the Ancyloceratida.[1]
Yezoites was first discovered in the Upper Cretaceous Yezo Group, Hokkaido, Japan and has since been identified in Antarctica, Denmark, France, Madagascar, and the United States.
Placement in the Scaphitidae [1] is doubtful. The shell has wide spaced ribbing.
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