Biology:Cobbanites

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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Cobbanites
Cobbanite talkeetnanus fossil
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Perisphinctidae
Genus: Cobbanites
Imlay, 1962

Cobbanites is a genus of extinct ammonoid cephalopods from the Family Perisphinctidae. Species of the genus date from the Jurassic (Bathonian to Early Callovian) period and have been found in the US (Alaska and Montana).[1][2]

Species

Cobbanites can be split into two species as follows:

  • Cobbanites engleri[3]
  • Cobbanites talkeetnanus[4]

References

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