Cladiscites

{{Short description|Extinct genus of molluscs}}

{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Carnian|Rhaetian|ref=}}

| image = Cladiscitidae - Cladiscites species.JPG

| image_caption = Polished fossil shell of Cladiscites species from Austria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris

|regnum = Animalia

|phylum = Mollusca

|classis = Cephalopoda

|subclassis = Ammonoidea

|ordo = Ceratitida

|familia = Cladiscitidae

|genus = Cladiscites

|genus_authority = de Haan (1825)

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision_ref = {{cite web | title= Paleobiology Database - Cladiscites | year = | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14073 | access-date = 2014-05-28 }}

|subdivision =

  • C. mendenhalli Smith 1927
  • C. tornatus Hauer 1846
  • C. ungeri Klipstein 1843

}}

Cladiscites is an extinct genus of cephalopods in the ammonoid order Ceratitida. These nektonic carnivores lived during the Triassic, from Carnian to Rhaetian age.{{cite web

| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| title= Sepkoski's Online Genus Database| year = 2002| url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| accessdate = 2014-05-28 }}

Distribution

Fossils of species within this family have been found in the Triassic of Afghanistan, Hungary, Italy, Oman, Tajikistan, United States and the East Indies.

References

;Notes

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;Weblinks

  • James Perrin Smith [https://books.google.com/books?id=nornAAAAMAAJ&dq=Cladiscites&pg=PA70 Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America]
  • [http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/mollusca/cephalopoda/ammonoidea/ceratitida.html Mikko's Phylogeny Archive]

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Category:Triassic ammonites

Category:Ammonites of Europe

Category:Carnian genus first appearances

Category:Norian genera

Category:Rhaetian genus extinctions

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