Biology:Mammitinae

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Short description: Extinct subfamily of molluscs

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

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.

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

Wikidata ☰ Q18356313 entry