Cladiscites

Cladiscites
Temporal range: Carnian–Rhaetian[1]
Polished fossil shell of Cladiscites species from Austria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Family: Cladiscitidae
Genus: Cladiscites
de Haan (1825)
Species [2]
  • C. mendenhalli Smith 1927
  • C. tornatus Hauer 1846
  • C. ungeri Klipstein 1843

Cladiscites is an extinct genus of cephalopods in the ammonoid order Ceratitida. These nektonic carnivores [2] lived during the Triassic, from Carnian to Rhaetian age. [1]

Description

Shells of these cephalopods can reach a diameter of about 70–170 centimetres (28–67 in). This genus survived at the extinction event at the end of the Permian.[3]

Distribution

Fossils of species within this family have been found in the Triassic of Afghanistan, Hungary, Italy, Oman, Tajikistan, United States[2] and the East Indies.

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. 1 2 3 "Paleobiology Database - Cladiscites". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  3. Museum of Victoria
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