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

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|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.

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