Jeletzkytes

Jeletzkytes
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Jeletzkytes, a Cretaceous ammonite from the USA
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Scaphitidae
Genus: Jeletzkytes
Riccardi, 1983
Species

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Jeletzkytes is an extinct genus of scaphatoid ammonite cephalopod mollusc from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of North America named and described by Riccardi, 1983. In overall form Jeletzkytes closely resembles the genus Scaphites. Species include J. compressus, J. criptonodosus, J. dorfi, J. nebrascensis, J. nodosus, J. plenus, and J. spedeni.

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