Silesitidae

Silesitidae
Temporal range: Barremian
Silesites seranonis from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Superfamily: †Desmoceratoidea
Family: †Silesitidae
Hyatt, 1900
Taxonomy

Silesitidae is an ammonite family in the superfamily Desmoceratoidea. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.

Taxonomy

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.

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