Scaphitidae

Scaphitidae Temporal range: Cretaceous, Albian–Maastrichtian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Danian survival on Scaphites
Scaphites species fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Suborder:	†Ancyloceratina
Superfamily:	†Scaphitoidea Gill, 1871
Family:	†Scaphitidae Gill, 1871
Subfamilies
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Scaphitidae is a family of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). There is a possible fossil record of them being the last ammonites with a fossil dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Turkmenistan.

Genera[]

Scaphitidae Gill, 1871

• Subfamily Otoscaphitinae Wright, 1953
  • Yezoites Yabe, 1910
• Subfamily Scaphitinae Gill, 1871
  • Acanthoscaphites Nowak, 1911
  • Clioscaphites Cobban, 1951
  • Discoscaphites Meek, 1870
  • Breistroffer, 1947
  • Hoploscaphites Nowak, 1911
  • Spath, 1953
  • Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983
  • Warren, 1934
  • Rhaeboceras Meek, 1876
  • Scaphites Parkinson, 1811
  • Cobban & Scott, 1964
• Subfamily Incertae sedis
  • Adkins, 1928^[1]

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