Jeletzkytes
| Jeletzkytes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
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| Jeletzkytes, from the United States | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
| Family: | †Scaphitidae |
| Subfamily: | † |
| Genus: | †Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983 |
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Jeletzkytes is an extinct genus of scaphatoid ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of North America named and described by Riccardi, 1983. In overall form Jeletzkytes closely resembles the genus Scaphites.
A number of species have been described in the genus including:
- J. brevis
- J. compressus
- J. crassus
- J. criptonodosus
- J. dorfi
- J. furnivali
- J. nebrascensis
- J. nodosus
- 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. [1]
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