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Scaphitidae

Scaphitidae

Overview

Scaphitidae Hyatt, 1900

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Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: The inner shell is tightly coiled before unfolding into a hook shape. Ornamentation can vary in amounts of ribbing, bumps, and projections. Suture lines branch out into five lobes which can become divided in half or thirds.

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Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (swim)

        FEEDING MODE: Predator

        HABITAT: epifaunal

Sources:

Wright, C. W., 1996. Ammonoidea, in Kaesler, R. L., ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4 Revised, Volume 4. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 362 pp.


Genera of Scaphitidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway