Arctoptychites

Arctoptychites
Temporal range: Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ceratitida
Family: †Ptychitidae
Genus: †
Archipov et al. 1974

Arctoptychites is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the ceratitid family Ptychitidae, and related to such genera as Ptychites and Aristoptychites; all from the Triassic.[1]

The Ptychitidae, to which Arctoptychites belongs, is a family of ceratitid ammonites (sensu lato) with ammonitic sutures and variably subglobular to compressed, ribbed or smooth, generally evolute shells.[2]

References

  1. ^ Arctoptychites Paleodb
  2. ^ Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (1957),Mesozoic Ammonoidea p.L180.


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