Silesites

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

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| fossil_range = Cretaceous (Barremian age),Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda] {{Fossilrange|129.4|125.0}}[https://www.fossilworks.org The Paleobiology Database]

| image = Silesitidae - Silesites seranonis.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil shell of Silesites seranonis from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris

| taxon = Silesites

| authority = Uhlig, 1883

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Silesites is an ammonite genus placed in the family Silesitidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age. The type species of the genus is Silesites seranonis .