Jeletzkytes Temporal range: Late
Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian)
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Jeletzkytes, from the United States | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Suborder: | † Ancyloceratina |
Family: | † Scaphitidae |
Subfamily: | † Scaphitinae |
Genus: | †
Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983 |
Species | |
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Jeletzkytes is an extinct genus of scaphatoid ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of North America named and described by Riccardi, 1983. In overall form Jeletzkytes closely resembles the genus Scaphites.
A number of species have been described in the genus including: