Arctoptychites
Appearance
Arctoptychites Temporal range: Triassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ceratitida |
Family: | †Ptychitidae |
Genus: | †Arctoptychites Archipov et al. 1974 |
Arctoptychites is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the ceratitid family Ptychitidae, and related to such genera as Ptychites and Aristoptychites; all from the Triassic.[1]
The Ptychitidae, to which Arctoptychites belongs, is a family of ceratitid ammonites (sensu lato) with ammonitic sutures and variably subglobular to compressed, ribbed or smooth, generally evolute shells.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Arctoptychites Paleodb
- ^ Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (1957),Mesozoic Ammonoidea p.L180.