Ankinatsytes

Ankinatsytes
Temporal range: Coniacian
~89.3–85.8 Ma[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Family: Nostoceratidae
Genus: Ankinatsytes
Collignon 1965
Species
  • A. venezolanus
  • A. yabei

Ankinatsytes is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. The ammonite is from the Late Cretaceous of Colombia (Loma Gorda Formation) and Venezuela (La Luna Formation).[2][3]

Species

The following species have been described:[4]

  • Ankinatsytes venezolanus
  • Ankinatsytes yabei

References

  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. Ankinasytes at Fossilworks.org
  3. Patarroyo, 2011
  4. Ankinatsytes at Fossilworks.org

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