Cobbanites

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]

Cobbanites
Cobbanite talkeetnanus fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Perisphinctidae
Genus: †Cobbanites
Imlay, 1962

Species

Cobbanites can be split into two species as follows:

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

References
  1. "Fossilworks: Cobbanites". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. Imlay, Ralph Willard (1962). Jurassic (Bathonian Or Early Callovian) Ammonites from Alaska and Montana. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  3. "Fossilworks: Cobbanites engleri". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  4. "Fossilworks: Cobbanites talkeetnanus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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