Paradeshayesites

Paradeshayesites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite[1] subclass.

Paradeshayesites
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Deshayesitidae
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Paradeshayesites

Kemper, 1967

Biostratigraphic significance

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has assigned the First Appearance Datum of Paradeshayesites oglanlensis as the defining biological marker for the start of the Aptian Stage of the Cretaceous, ~125.0 million years ago.

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