Xenoceltites Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ceratitida |
Family: | † Xenoceltitidae |
Genus: | †
Xenoceltites Spath, 1930 |
Xenoceltites is an extinct genus of ceratite ammonoid found worldwide in the Lower Triassic. [1] [2]
One of the earliest ceratites, Xenoceltites has a narrow planospiral shell with a compressed whorl section, that has a suture with two weakly toothed lateral lobes and irregular ribbing.
Xenoceltites belongs to the Xenoceltitidae, a family within the order Ceratitida that with two others form the superfamily Xenodiscaceae. [3]