Cadomites
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| Genus: | Cadomites Munier-Chalmas 1892
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Cadomites is an extinct ammonite genus from the superfamily Stephanocerataceae that lived during the Middle Jurassic (upper Bajocian – lower Callovian).[1]
Description
Cadomites is directly descended from Stephanoceras, with a similar collared and lipped aperture rim, but has denser, finer, sharper ribbing. The shell is discoidal, evolute, with a wide umbilicus. The suture is complex.
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Middle Jurassic sediments in Europe, Africa and South Asia.
References
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help); Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ The Paleobiology Database
- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea, -Sephanocerataceae; Geological Society of America, 1957, reprinted 1990.
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