| Scaphitidae | |
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| Scaphites species fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
| Order: | † Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | † Ancyloceratina |
| Superfamily: | † Scaphitoidea Gill, 1871 |
| Family: | † Scaphitidae Gill, 1871 |
| Subfamilies | |
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Scaphitidae is a family of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). There is a possible fossil record of them being the last ammonites with fossils dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Denmark, the Netherlands, the US and Turkmenistan.
Scaphitidae Gill, 1871