Silesitidae
| Silesitidae Temporal range: [1]
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| Silesites seranonis from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | †Desmoceratoidea |
| Family: | † Hyatt, 1900 |
| Taxonomy | |
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Silesitidae is an ammonite family in the superfamily Desmoceratoidea. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1]
Taxonomy
- Neoastieria
- Piatnitzkyceras
- Silesites
- Silesitoidinae
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.[1]
References
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