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| Description | Scaphites is a genus of heteromorph ammonites belonging to the Scaphitidae family. They were a widespread genus that thrived during the Late Cretaceous period, they have a possible fossil record during the Paleocene in the Southern United States. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphites, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 4.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Scaphitidae : Scaphites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Scaphitidae : Scaphites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Scaphites Parkinson, 1811 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Org. Rem., 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 113 - 105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 66.0 - 61.6 Ma Paleocene | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | well-developed (based on Cephalopoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | carnivore (based on Ammonoidea) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Ammonoidea) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphites |
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| 👁 Image Scaphites (Scaphites) ✝ subgenus | listed (PBDB) | 78 | 112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites africanus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites alpinus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites aquilaensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites arcadiensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites aricki species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites astierianus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites auriculatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites bassei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites binneyi ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites binodosus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites bosquensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites brittonensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites coloradoensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites condoni ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites constrictus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites corvensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites crassecostatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites decaryi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites delicatulus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| 👁 Image Scaphites depressus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 3 | 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| 👁 Image Scaphites diana ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 5 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites elegans species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites equalis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 15 | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| 👁 Image Scaphites eruciformis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites evolutus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites falloti species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites ferronensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites frontierensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites geinitzii ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 19 | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites genyi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites gibbus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites gilli species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites gillisi ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 2 | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites hattini species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites haugi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites hilli species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites hippocrepis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 28 | 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| 👁 Image Scaphites hugardianus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 19 | 112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites impendicostatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites inermis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites inflexus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites kieslingswaldensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites larvaeformis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites leei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites levis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites mariasensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites meslei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites minutus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites mitchellensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites nigricollensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| 👁 Image Scaphites obliquus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 17 | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites ornatissimus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites patulus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 7 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites peroni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites pisinnus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites pittensis ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites poissoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites porchi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites praecoquus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites preventricosus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 6 | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites provincialis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites pseudoaequalis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 3 | 93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites pungens species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites rarecostatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites roedereri species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites roguensis ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Scaphites rugosus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites saxitonianus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites stantoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites subdelicatulus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites subdelicatus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites tetonensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites uintensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites ventricosus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 13 | 89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites veterinovus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites warreni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| 👁 Image Scaphites whitfieldi ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 7 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Scaphites worthensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites yorkensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scaphites yvanii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Scaphita Fleming, 1828 | GBIF | genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Scaphitidae : Scaphita |
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1811 | Scaphites Parkinson |
| 1857 | Ammonites (Scaphites) Meek |
| 1976 | Scaphites Atabekyan and Khakimov p. 73 |
| 1977 | Scaphites Tanabe p. 16 |
| 1979 | Scaphites Wright p. 298 |
| 1984 | Scaphites Kennedy p. 146 |
| 1988 | Scaphites Thomel p. 25 |
| 1990 | Scaphites Henderson p. 127 |
| 1990 | Scaphites Kennedy and Cobban p. 418 |
| 1991 | Scaphites Kennedy and Christensen p. 222 |
| 1992 | Scaphites Cobban and Kennedy p. 84 |
| 1992 | Scaphites Kennedy et al. p. 275 |
| 1993 | Scaphites Kennedy p. 112 |
| 1993 | Scaphites Kennedy and Christennsen p. 155 |
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1993 | Scaphites Kennedy and Cobban p. 845 |
| 1994 | Scaphites Kennedy p. 234 |
| 1995 | Scaphites Kennedy p. 432 |
| 1995 | Scaphites Kennedy and Kaplan p. 32 |
| 1997 | Scaphites Kennedy et al. p. 14 |
| 2000 | Scaphites Arkadiev et al. p. 120 |
| 2002 | Anascaphites Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2002 | Scaphites Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2004 | Scaphites Kennedy and Jolkicev p. 378 |
| 2005 | Scaphites Kennedy p. 423 |
| 2007 | Scaphites Kennedy and Latil p. 474 |
| 2008 | Scaphites Kennedy et al. p. 47 |
| 2015 | Scaphites Kennedy and Gale p. 520 |
| Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560 |
| Atabekyan A. A., Khakimov F. K. (1976) , Kampanskie i Maastrikhtskie ammonity sredney Azii, 1-146 |
| Tanabe K. (1977) Mid-Cretaceous scaphitid ammonites from Hokkaido, Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 21, 11-22 |
| Wright C. W. (1979) The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian), Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 31, 281-332 |
| Kennedy W. J. (1984) Systematic palaeontology and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite faunas of the French Coniacian, Special Papers in Palaeontology 31, 1-160 |
| Thomel G. (1988) Les ammonites néocrétacées des chaînes subalpines méridionales, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 153, 1-79 |
| Henderson R. A. (1990) Late Albian ammonites from the Northern Territory, Australia, Alcheringa 14, 109-148 |
| Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A. (1990) Cenomanian micromorphic ammonites from the western interior of the USA, Palaeontology 33, 379-422 |
| Kennedy W. J., Christensen W. K. (1991) Coniacian and Santonian ammonites from Bornholm, Denmark, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 38, 203-226 |
| Cobban W. A., Kennedy W. J. (1992) Campanian Trachyscaphites spiniger ammonite fauna in north-east Texas, Palaeontology 35 1, 63-93 |
| Kennedy W. J., Hansotte M., et al (1992) Ammonites and nannofossils from the Campanian of Nalzen (Ariége, France), Geobios 25 2, 263-278 |
| Kennedy W. J. (1993) Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from the Mons Basin and adajcent areas (Belgium), Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 63, 99-131 |
| Kennedy W. J., Christennsen W. K. (1993) Santonian ammonites from the Köpingsberg-1 borehole, Sweden, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Denmark 40, 149-156 |
| Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A. (1993) Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware, Journal of Paleontology 67 5, 828-849 |
| Kennedy W. J. (1994) Cenomanian ammonites from Cassis, Bouches-du-Rhone, France, Palaeopelagos Special Publication 1, 209-254 |
| Kennedy W. J. (1995) Systematic palaeontology, in Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées), Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine 19, 377-499 |
| Kennedy W. J., Kaplan U. (1995) Parapuzosia (Parapuzosia) seppenradensis (Landois) und die Ammonitenfauna der Dülmener Schichten, unteres Unter-Campan, Westfalen, Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 33, 1-127 |
| Kennedy W. J., Cobban W. A., et al (1997) New ammonoid records from the Merchantville Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Maryland and New Jersey, American Museum Novitates 3193, 1-17 |
| Arkadiev V. V., Atabekian A. A., et al (2000) Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 255, 85-128 |
| Kennedy W. J., Jolkicev N. (2004) Middle Cenomanian ammonites from the type section of the Sanandinovo Formation of northern Bulgaria, Acta Geologica Polonica 54, 369-380 |
| Kennedy W. J. (2005) Systematic palaeontology, in Upper Albian and Lower Cenomanian ammonites from the Main Street Limestone, Grayson Marl and Del Rio Clay in northeast Texas, Cretaceous Research 26, 349-428 |
| Kennedy W. J., Latil J. L. (2007) The Upper Albian ammonite succession in the Montlaux section, Hautes-Alpes, France, Acta Geologica Polonica 57 4, 453-478 |
| Kennedy W. J., Jagt J. W. M., et al (2008) The late Late Albian (Mortoniceras fallax Zone) cephalopod fauna from the Bracquegnies formation at Strépy-Thieu (Hainaut, southern Belgium), Geologica Belgica 11, 35-69 |
| Kennedy W. J., Gale A. S. (2015) Late Turonian ammonites from Haute-Normandie, France, Acta Geologica Polonica 65, 507-524 |
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