Cobbanites

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}

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| image = Cobbanites talkeetnanus SR EA 08-01-01.jpg

| image_caption = Cobbanite talkeetnanus fossil

| taxon = Cobbanites

| authority = Imlay, 1962

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Cobbanites is a genus of extinct ammonoid cephalopods from the Family Perisphinctidae. Species of the genus date from the Jurassic (Bathonian to Early Callovian) period and have been found in the US (Alaska and Montana).{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14702|title=Fossilworks: Cobbanites|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=17 December 2021}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9nEApjZiZMC&q=cobbanites&pg=PA27|title=Jurassic (Bathonian Or Early Callovian) Ammonites from Alaska and Montana|last=Imlay|first=Ralph Willard|date=1962|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}

Species

Cobbanites can be split into two species as follows:

  • Cobbanites engleri{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=298887|title=Fossilworks: Cobbanites engleri|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=17 December 2021}}
  • Cobbanites talkeetnanus{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=239475|title=Fossilworks: Cobbanites talkeetnanus|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=17 December 2021}}

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