Cladiscitidae

Cladiscitidae
Temporal range: 247.2 –201.6 Ma[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
Zittel 1884
Genus [1]
  • Cladiscites
  • Hypocladiscites
  • Mesocladiscites
  • Neocladiscites
  • Paracladiscites
  • Phyllocladiscites
  • Procladiscites
  • Psilocladiscites
  • Sphaerocladiscites

Cladiscitidae is an extinct family of cephalopods in the ammonoid order Ceratitida. These nektonic carnivores lived during the Triassic. [1]

Distribution

Fossils of species within this family have been found in the Triassic of Afghanistan, Albania, Canada, China, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Oman, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, United States.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Paleobiology Database - Cladiscitidae". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
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