Kingdom Animalia Class Cephalopoda Order Ammonitida | Phylum Mollusca Subclass Ammonoidea Rank Family | |
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Psiloceratidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the ammonite subclass.
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Description
The Psiloceratidae are evolute, smooth or with blunt primary ribbing. The venter is rounded and generally smooth, in some feebly keeled. Sutures are simple with phylloid saddle endings in some. The aptychus is single, found in sutu in Psiloceras
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Triassic rocks of Canada, in the Jurassic rocks of Argentina, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain), United Kingdom, United States, as well as in the Cretaceous of Australia and Russia.
References
Psiloceratidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA