Xenoceltites

Xenoceltites
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Suborder: Paraceltitina
Superfamily: Xenodiscaceae
Family: Xenoceltitidae
Genus: Xenoceltites
Spath 1930

Xenoceltites is an extinct ceratite ammonite found world wide in the Lower Triassic. Xenoceltites belongs to the Xenoceltitidae, a taxonomic family within the ceratites that with two others now form the superfamily Xenodiscaceae. One of the earliest ceratites, Xenoceltities has a narrow planospiral shell with a compressed whorl section, that has a suture with 2 weakly toothed lateral lobes and irregular ribbing .

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