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Extinct genus of molluscs

Kabylites
Temporal range: Barremian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Suborder: †Ancyloceratina
Family: †Bochianitidae
Genus: †Kabylites
Durand Delga, 1954
Species
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Kabylites is a narrow, straight shelled Lower Cretaceous ancyloceratid resembling Bochianites in general form. Kabylites differs from Bochianites in having an umbilical lobe more or less the same size as the first lateral lobe. In Bochianites the umbilical lobe is much reduced in size.

Kabylites, which is known from Europe, north Africa, and Japan, also follows Bochianites sequentially, first appearing in the Barremian and continuing into the Lower Aptian. Bochianites lasted from the Tithonian at the end of the Jurassic to the Hauterivian which just precedes the Barremian.

References

  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  • Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Mollusca 4, Cephalopoda Ammoidea) Geological Soc. of America and University of Kansas Press. 1957 (L307)
  • Paleobiology Database Kabylites entry
Taxon identifiers
Kabylites


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