Mazapilitinae Temporal range: Kimmeridgian | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Oppeliidae |
Subfamily: | † Mazapilitinae Spath, 1928 |
Genera | |
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Mazapilitinae is a subfamily of Upper Jurassic ammonites included in the Oppeliidae. Shells are involute; venter rounded or gently tabulate; ribbing coarse, fold-like, branching. [1]
Genera include Mazapilites , Submazapilites , and Eurynoticeras , which have been found in Kimmeridgian age marine sediments in southern Europe and Mexico. [1]