Jeletzkytes
Jeletzkytes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
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Jeletzkytes, from the United States | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
Family: | †Scaphitidae |
Subfamily: | †Scaphitinae |
Genus: | †Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983 |
Species | |
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Jeletzkytes is an extinct genus of
Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of North America named and described by Riccardi, 1983. In overall form Jeletzkytes closely resembles the genus Scaphites
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A number of species have been described in the genus including:
- J. brevis
- J. compressus
- J. crassus
- J. criptonodosus
- J. dorfi
- J. furnivali
- J. nebrascensis
- J. nodosus
- J. spedeni
References
- Jeletzkytes, Paleobiology Database. 13 Mar. 2013.
- Neil H. Landman, Karl M Waage (Karl Mensch); Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 215, 1993. [1]