Scaphitidae
Sign in to saveScaphitidae 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 fossils dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Denmark, the Netherlands, the US and Turkmenistan.
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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 fossils dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Denmark, the Netherlands, the US and Turkmenistan.
==Genera== Scaphitidae Gill, 1871 Subfamily Otoscaphitinae Wright, 1953 Yezoites Yabe, 1910 Subfamily Scaphitinae Gill, 1871 Acanthoscaphites Nowak, 1911 Clioscaphites Cobban, 1951 Discoscaphites Meek, 1870 Eoscaphites Breistroffer, 1947 Hoploscaphites Nowak, 1911 Indoscaphites Spath, 1953 Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983 Ponteixites Warren, 1934 Rhaeboceras Meek, 1876 Scaphites Parkinson, 1811 Trachyscaphites Cobban & Scott, 1964 Subfamily Incertae sedis Worthoceras Adkins, 1928