Silesites
| Silesites Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age),[1] 136.4–99.7 Ma | |
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| Fossil shell of Silesites seranonis from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Desmocerataceae |
| Family: | Silesitidae |
| Genus: | Silesites Uhlig 1883 |
Silesites is an ammonite genus placed in the family Silesitidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1] The type species of the genus is Ammonites seranonis .[2]
Species
- Silesites seranonis
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.
References
- 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- 1 2 The Paleobiology Database
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