Glyphidites
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Class: | Cephalopoda
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| Genus: | Glyphidites Mojsisovics, 1893
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Glyphidites is a genus of Late Triassic ceratitids included in the family Thisbitidae, characterized by an essentially involute shell with a compressed whorl section, nearly straight sides and arched venter, bearing a serrated keel and granular sinuous ribs.
Glyphidites comes from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Sicily and the Alps. Related genera include and . The Thisbitidae, to which it is assigned, has been removed from the Clydonitaceae in Akell et al., 1957 to the Tropitaceae in E.T. Tozer, 1981
References[]
- Arkell et al., Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Soc. of America, and University of Kansas Press.
- Glyphidites-Paleodb
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