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Scaphitidae

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Scaphitidae
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous-Early Paleocene, Albian–Danian Almost certain Danian survival of Hoploscaphites
Scaphites species fossil
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Superfamily: Scaphitoidea
Gill, 1871
Family: Scaphitidae
Gill, 1871
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Scaphitidae is a family of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). There is a possible fossil record of them being the last ammonites with fossils dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Denmark, the Netherlands, the US and Turkmenistan.

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Scaphitidae Gill, 1871

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