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Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Silesites
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), 129.4–125.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil shell of Silesites seranonis 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: †Silesitidae
Genus: †Silesites
Uhlig, 1883

Silesites is an ammonite genus placed in the family Silesitidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age. The type species of the genus is Silesites seranonis .

Species

  • Silesites seranonis
  • Silesites vulpes

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.

  • Silesites vulpes Silesites vulpes

References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
  2. ^ The Paleobiology Database
Taxon identifiers
Silesites


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