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Fossil specimen of Arcestes species from Mid Triassic, Dossena (Bergamo) | |
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Family: | Arcestidae Mojsisovics 1875 |
Arcestidae is an extinct family of ammonite cephalopods.
Fossils of Arcestidae are found in the Triassic marine strata throughout the world, including Austria, Canada, Georgia, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States.
Nannites is a genus in the ammonoid cephalopods in the order Ceratitida from the middle and upper Triassic of the Alps, named by Mojsisovics (1897). Nannites is the type genus of the Nannitidae which has been placed in the Danubitaceae. Previously the Nannitidae was included in the Ptychitaceae along with the Ptychitidae and, Isculitidae.
Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár was an Austro-Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist.
Daonella is a genus of oyster-like saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks which lived in the middle to late Triassic period. They are related to the genera Aparimella and Halobia. Since they were ubiquitous in the Arctic, Tethys and Panthalassa seas, they are frequently used as index fossils in dating rocks to the Triassic period. However, the systematic classification of the Daonella is still an area of ongoing research.
Anasirenites is a genus of extinct ammonoid cephalopods within the family Trachyceratidae which is part of the ceratitid superfamily Clydonitaceae; sometimes considered a subgenus of Sirenites. Anasirenites is characterized by a ventral furrow bordered on either side by a continuous keel. The shell, as for Sirenites, is compressed with whorls flattened-convex on the sides. Sigmoidal ribs on the flanks bifurcate near the ventro-lateral shoulder on tubercles and project sharply adorally. Whorl sides are tuberculate with tubercles arranged in spiral lines. The suture is ammonitic. Anasirenites, first described by Mojsisovics in 1893 is known from the Upper Triassic of the Alps, Sicily, and the Himalaya.
Arcestes is a genus of extinct ceratitid ammonites found in Triassic-aged marine strata.
Arpadites is a genus of ceratitids in the family Trachyceratidae from the Middle and Upper Triassic of Nevada, Alps, Italy, Balkans, Himalayas, and Japan.
Anisarcestes is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.
Homerites is a genus of small, involute, globase fossil ceratitids with an eccentric outer whorl and subammonitic sutures belonging to the family Halortidae The body chamber has a slight central keel and radial dichotomous ribs that commonly terminate at spines on the ventral shoulder. Homerites, described and named by Mojsisovics in 1893 has been found in the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of California and the Alps. The Halortidae in which it is placed is part of the superfamily Tropitaceae.
Clydonitoidea, formerly Clydonitaceae, is a superfamily in the ammonoid cephalopod order Ceratitida characterized by generally costate and tuberculate shells with smooth, grooved, or keeled venters and sutures that are commonly ceratitic or ammonitic but goniatitic in a few offshoots.
The Trachyceratidae is an extinct family of ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods.
Lecanites is a ceratitid genus assigned to the Danubitaceae, with an essentially smooth, evolute, discoidal shell and a goniatitic suture with many elements. It is the type and now only genus of the Lecanitidae.
Ptychitoidea, formerly Ptychitacheae, is a superfamily of typically involute, subglobular to discoidal Ceratitida in which the shell is smooth with lateral folds or striations, inner whorls are globose, and the suture is commonly ammonitic. Their range is Middle_ and Upper Triassic.
Pinacoceratoidea, formerly Pinacocerataceae, are generally smooth, compressed, evolute to involute ammonoids from the Triassic, belonging to the Ceratitida, in which the suture is ammonitic, with adventitious and auxiliary elements.
Pleuronautilus is a nautiloid genus; family Tainoceratidae, order Nautilida.
Trachynautilus is a member of the Tainoceratidae, named by Mojsisovics in 1902, with longitudinal ridges on the flanks of its high-arched involute shell. Phloiocedas from the Upper Triassic of North America is similar except that its venter also has longitudinal ridges. Trachynautilus from the middle and Upper Triassic of Europe has a smooth venter.
Ceratitidae is an extinct family of ammonite cephalopods.
Paraceratites is an extinct genus of ammonite cephalopods in the family Ceratitidae.
Hedenstroemiidae is an extinct family of cephalopods in the ammonoid order Ceratitida. They were nektonic carnivores.
Catenohalorites is an extinct genus of Triassic ammonoids belonging to the family Haloritidae.
Tirolites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopod. Its first appearance defines the Smithian-Spathian boundary in the Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic epoch. It is prominent in the Paris biota.