Epicephalites

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

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| name = Epicephalites

| fossil_range = U Jurassic

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| subclassis = Ammonoidea

| ordo = Ammonitida

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| familia = Perisphinctidae

| genus =Epicephalites

| genus_authority = Spath, 1928

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Epicephalites is a perisphictid ammonite, included in the subfamily Aulacostephaninae, from the Upper Jurassic of New Zealand and Mexico, related to Involuticeras. Its shell is involute, whorls inflated with a deep umbilicus. The outer half including the venter is ribbed, the inner half is smooth.

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Category:Jurassic ammonites

Category:Ammonitida genera

Category:Perisphinctidae

Category:Fossils of Mexico

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