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 | |
|
see text | |
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.
References
- Jeletzkytes, Paleobiology Database. 13 Mar. 2013.
- Neil H. Landman, Karl M Waage (Karl Mensch); Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 215, 1993.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, December 08, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.