Cadomites
{{Short description|Extinct genus of ammonites}}
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{{Taxobox
|name = Cadomites
|fossil_range = from Bajocian to Callovian,{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry) | journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 |pages=1–560 | year=2002 | url=http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class |accessdate=2017-10-18 |url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225225905/http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class | archivedate=2016-02-25 }} {{Fossilrange|171.6|164.7}}{{cite web | title= Paleobiology Database - Cadomites | year = | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14657| access-date = 2017-10-19 }}
|image =31 - Muséum de Toulouse - Cadomites deslongchampsii - Bayeux Calvados France.jpg
|image_width = 250px
|image_caption = Cadomites deslongchampsii Type species of the genus - Bayeux France MHNT
|regnum = Animalia
|phylum = Mollusca
|classis = Cephalopoda
|subclassis = Ammonoidea
|ordo = Ammonitida
|superfamilia = Stephanoceratoidea
|familia = Stephanoceratidae
|genus = Cadomites
|genus_authority = Munier-Chalmas 1892
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Cadomites is an extinct ammonite genus from the superfamily Stephanoceratoidea that lived during the Middle Jurassic (upper Bajocian – lower Callovian).
Description
Cadomites is directly descended from Stephanoceras, with a similar collared and lipped aperture rim, but has denser, finer, sharper ribbing. The shell is discoidal, evolute, with a wide umbilicus. The suture is complex.
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Middle Jurassic sediments in Europe, Africa and South Asia.
References
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= Bibliography =
- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea, -Stephanocerataceae; Geological Society of America, 1957, reprinted 1990
External links
- [http://www.ammonites.fr/Fiches/0804.htm Ammonites.fr: Ammonites website]
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Category:Middle Jurassic ammonites
Category:Middle Jurassic ammonites of Europe
Category:Jurassic animals of Africa
Category:Middle Jurassic Africa
Category:Middle Jurassic ammonites of Asia
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