Discoscaphites

Discoscaphites
Temporal range: Campanian–Maastrichtian[1]
Discoscaphites iris,
Owl Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Ripley, Mississippi.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Suborder: †Ancyloceratina
Family: †Scaphitidae
Subfamily: †Scaphitinae
Genus: †Discoscaphites
Meek, 1870
Species[2]
  • D. conradi
  • D. gulosus
  • D. rossi

Discoscaphites is an extinct genus of ammonite.

Distribution

Cretaceous of Greenland, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming,[2] and North Carolina[3]

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References
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. "Paleobiology Database - Discoscaphites". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  3. Chandler and Timmerman, Richard and John (2014). Fossil Mollusks - Volume II of IV. North Carolina: North Carolina Fossil Club. p. 20.
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