Silesites
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| Fossil shell of Silesites seranonis from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Class: | Cephalopoda
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| Genus: | Silesites Uhlig, 1883
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Silesites is an ammonite genus placed in the family Silesitidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1] The type species of the genus is Silesites seranonis .[2]
Species[]
- Silesites seranonis
- Silesites vulpes
Distribution[]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.
Silesites vulpes
References[]
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- ^ a b The Paleobiology Database
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