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
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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:Carnian genus first appearances
Category:Rhaetian genus extinctions
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