Xenocephalites
| Xenocephalites Temporal range: Middle Jurassic | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | Ammonitina |
| Superfamily: | Stephanoceratoidea |
| Family: | Macrocephalitidae |
| Genus: | Xenocephalites Spath, 1928 |
Xenocephalites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus from the late Middle Jurassic belonging to the stephanoceratoid family Macrocephalitidae. It is known from southern Alaska, Greenland, Mexico, and Argentina.
Xenocephalites can be recognized by its coarsly ribbed, prominently umbilicate, involute shell where in ribs are widely splayed, tending to bifurcate high on the flanks. Macrocephalites is similar except that its ribbing is finer and more dense. In both the ribbing crosses uninterrupted over the venter.
References
- Arkell, et al., Mesozoic Ammonoidea' Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontonology, Part L (1957); Geological Society of America.
- Xenocephalites, Paleo db.
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