Eophyllites
| Eophyllites Temporal range: Early Triassic (Scythian) | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Family: | Ussuritidae |
| Genus: | Eophyllites Spath, 1930 |
Eophyllites is an ammonoid cephalopod from the Lower Triassic and a predecessor of genera like Monophyllites and Ussurites.
The shell of Eophyllites is evolute, discoidal; whorls compressed, deeply embracing; flanks gently convex, converging on a narrowly rounded venter. Sutures basically ceratitic; ventral lobe wide, divided by a high siphonal saddle; Lobesjagged, 1st lateral larger than the second; saddles monophyllic, smooth and rounded.
Related Paleophylites from the same age is ribbed on the outer flanks and lobes in the suture are more terminally digitate.
References
- W.J. Arkell, et al, 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press
- Sepkoski's list of Cephalopod Genera
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