Clioscaphites
{{Short description|Extinct genus of mollusc}}
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| fossil_range = Coniacian to Santonian
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| taxon = Clioscaphites
| authority = Cobban 2005
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision_ref = {{cite journal |last1=Cobban |first1=W.A. |last2=Dyman |first2=T.S. |last3=Porter |first3=K.W. |title=Paleontology and stratigraphy of upper Coniacian–middle Santonian ammonite zones and application to erosion surfaces and marine transgressive strata in Montana and Alberta |journal=Cretaceous Research |date=June 2005 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=429–449 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2005.01.007}}
| subdivision = C. choteauensis
C. montanensis
C. saxitonianus
C. vermiformis
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Clioscaphites is an extinct genus of ammonite belonging to the family Scaphitidae.{{cite journal |first1=K. |last1=Tanabe |year=1977 |title=Mid-Cretaceous scaphitid ammonites from Hokkaido |journal=Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers |volume=21 |pages=11-22}} Species in this genus are important index fossils of the Western Interior Seaway of the Coniacian to Santonian Ages of the Cretaceous.
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Category:Late Cretaceous ammonites of North America
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