Epicephalites
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Epicephalites
| fossil_range = U Jurassic
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| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Cephalopoda
| subclassis = Ammonoidea
| ordo = Ammonitida
| superfamilia =
| 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.
References
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- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (1957), Mesozoic Ammonoidea. p. 327.
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