Urakawites Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Pachydiscidae |
Genus: | †
Urakawites Matsumoto, 1955 |
Urakawites is an extinct ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous ( Campanian) of Japan, Sakhalin, Russia, British Columbia, Canada and possibly Germany and Angola. Urakawites is placed in the family is Pachydiscidae.
Urakawites is characterized by a bituberculate (meaning it has two rows of tubercles on either side), strongly ribbed, moderately compressed shell.