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Anapachydiscus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Pachydiscidae

Rank
  
Genus

Superfamily
  
Desmocerataceae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Ammonites

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Similar
  
Ammonites, Menuites, Eupachydiscus, Acanthoscaphites

Anapachydiscus is an extinct cephalopod genus from the Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian - Maastrichtian of Europe, Africa, Madagascar, S.India, N Z, Calif. Mexico, Argentina, and the Antarctic belonging to the ammonoid family Pachydiscidae.

Anapachydiscus has a rather involute shell with a broad to moderately compressed whorl section. Early whorls smooth, intermediary develop straight or slightly curved, radial ribs that thicken toward the umbilicus. Outer whorls may again be smooth, or have coarse ribs so as to resemble Eupachydiscus.

References

Anapachydiscus Wikipedia