Biology:Discoscaphites
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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)
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| Discoscaphites iris, Owl Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Ripley, Mississippi. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
| Family: | †Scaphitidae |
| Subfamily: | †Scaphitinae |
| Genus: | †Discoscaphites Meek, 1870 |
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Discoscaphites is an extinct genus of ammonite. This genus may have been one of the few to have briefly survived the K-Pg mass extinction.
Distributions
Cretaceous of Greenland, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming,[1] and North Carolina.[2] Discoscaphites is present in the famous Pinna Layer of the Tinton Formation of New Jersey (above the iridium anomaly), with even possible records in the layer above, along with Eubaculites.[3] Some researchers prefer a conservative interpretation when dating the Pinna Layer, the other remains still suggest Discoscaphites was a K-Pg survivor, albeit restricted to 65 Ma.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Paleobiology Database - Discoscaphites". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=14786.
- ↑ Chandler and Timmerman, Richard and John (2014). Fossil Mollusks - Volume II of IV. North Carolina: North Carolina Fossil Club. pp. 20. http://www.ncfossilclub.org/node/8. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ↑ Landman, Neil H.; Garb, Matthew P.; Rovelli, Remy; Ebel, Denton S.; Edwards, Lucy E. (December 2012). "Short-Term Survival of Ammonites in New Jersey After the End-Cretaceous Bolide Impact" (in en). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4): 703–715. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0068. ISSN 0567-7920.
- ↑ Landman, Neil H.; Goolaerts, Stijn; Jagt, John W.M.; Jagt-Yazykova, Elena A.; Machalski, Marcin (2015), Klug, Christian; Korn, Dieter; De Baets, Kenneth et al., eds., "Ammonites on the Brink of Extinction: Diversity, Abundance, and Ecology of the Order Ammonoidea at the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) Boundary" (in en), Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) 44: pp. 497–553, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9633-0_19, ISBN 978-94-017-9632-3, http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-017-9633-0_19, retrieved 2021-10-27
External links
- "Spectacularly Blood Red Discoscaphites Fox Hills Ammonite". The Virtual Fossil Museum. http://www.fossilmuseum.net/ammonite-pictures/Discoscaphites-conradi/Discoscaphites.htm.
Wikidata ☰ Q5281708 entry
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