Silesites
Silesites | |
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Fossil shell of Silesites seranonis from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Silesitidae |
Genus: | †Silesites Uhlig, 1883 |
Silesites is an ammonite genus placed in the family Silesitidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1] The type species of the genus is Silesites seranonis .[2]
Species
[edit]- Silesites seranonis
- Silesites vulpes
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.
- Silesites vulpes
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- ^ a b The Paleobiology Database