Spitidiscus

Spitidiscus
Temporal range: Hauterivian-Barremian
~130–125 Ma
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Fossil shell of Spitidiscus species from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Holcodiscidae
Genus: †Spitidiscus
Kilian, 1910
Spitidiscus seunesi (Kilian) Barremian, Brestak, Cr1 426X1 (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology

Spitidiscus is a genus of ammonites placed in the family Holcodiscidae.[1][2]

  1. ^ Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et al. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, at 69.
  2. ^ "Spitidiscus". Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda.