Silesites
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age),[1] [2]
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.[1] The type species of the genus is Silesites seranonis .[2]

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.

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