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Silesitidae

Silesitidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), 136.4–99.7 Ma
Silesitidae - Silesites seranonis.JPG
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.


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