Mammitinae

Mammitinae comprises a subfamily within the Acanthoceratidae (Ammonoidea) characterized by moderately to very evolute shells with rectangular to squarish whorl sections along with blunt umbilical and prominent inner and outer ventrolateral tubercles on sparse ribs that may be round and strong, sharp and narrow, or absent. The suture is somewhat simpler than that of the Acanthoceratinae. Range is restricted to the lower Turonian stage of the Upper Cretaceous.

Mammitinae
Temporal range: early Turonian
Mammites nodosoides fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Acanthoceratidae
Subfamily: Mammitinae
Hyatt, 1900
Genera
  • See text

Genera include:

  • Buccinammonites
  • Buchiceras
  • Cryptometoicoceras
  • Dunverganoceras Warren & Stelck, 1940
  • Mammites Laube & Bruden, 1886
  • Metasigaloceras Hyatt, 1903
  • Metoicoceras Hyatt, 1903
  • Mitonia
  • Nannometoicoceras
  • Parabuchiceras
  • Paracompsoceras
  • Plesiacanthoceras
  • Praemetoicoceras
  • Pseudoaspidoceras Hyatt, 1903
  • Rhamphidoceras
  • Spathites
  • Texacanthoceras

References

  • W.J. Arkell, et al., Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.


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