Eupachydiscus

Eupachydiscus
Temporal range: U Cretaceous
Eupachydiscus haradai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Desmocerataceae
Family: Pachydiscidae
Genus: Eupachydiscus
Spath, 1922
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Eupachydisus is a large, coarse-ribbed Pachydiscid ammonite genus from the Upper Cretaceous, found in Coniacian to Campanian age strata in Europe, Madagascar, Japan, and British Columbia.

The whorl section in Eupachydiscus is inflated and depressed, almost round in the later growth stages. Ribs are narrow but prominent in the early whorls, becoming thick and strong in the later.

Eupachydiscus is distinct from the mostly later, Campanian - Maastrichtian, compressed and high-whorled Pachydiscus, but somewhat similar to the coeval, inflated and coarse ribbed, Coniacian-Santonian, Pachydiscoides

Species

References

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4, R.C. Moore, ed. Geological Soc. of America and Univ. Kansas Press. p L377-L380.

Paleodb-Pachydiscidae 5/01/11

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