Cleistosphinctes

Cleistosphinctes; Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Order:	Ammonitida
Superfamily:	Perisphinctaceae
Family:	Perisphinctidae
Genus:	Cleistosphinctes

Cleistosphinctes is an extinct cephalopod genus from the ammonite order that lived during the Middle Jurassic.[1]

Cleistosphinctes, named by Arkell, 1953, and included in the family Perisphinctidae and superfamily Perisphinctaceae, is small, compressed, evolute, with long secondary ribs and very large asymmetric spatulate lappets that embrace the sides of the preceding whorl.

References

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2017-10-18.

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L Ammonoidea; Geological Society of America and Univ of Kansas press, 5th printing, 1990. (p. L314)

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[Sepkoski_Ceph-1] Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2017-10-18.