Silesitidae Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), 136.4–99.7 Ma |
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Fossil shell of Silesites seranonis from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Ammonitida |
Superfamily: | Desmocerataceae |
Family: |
Silesitidae Hyatt 1900 |
Silesitidae is an ammonite family. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.