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Scaphitidae

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Scaphitidae
Temporal range: Early Albian-late Maastrichtian, possible Danian record
Scaphites species fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Superfamily: Scaphitoidea
Gill, 1871
Family: Scaphitidae
Gill, 1871
Subfamilies

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Scaphitidae is a family of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). There is a possible fossil record of them being the last ammonites with a fossil dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Turkmenistan.


Genera

Scaphitidae Gill, 1871

References