Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: † Ammonoidea
Ordo: † Ammonitida
SubOrdo: † Ancyloceratina
Superfamilia: Scaphitaceae
Familia: Scaphitidae
Subfamilia: Scaphitinae
Genus: Jeletzkytes
Species: J. compressus – J. criptonodosus – J. dorfi – J. nebrascensis – J. nodosus – J. plenus – J. spedeni
Name
Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1993
References
Kennedy, W. J., Landman, N. H., Cobban, W. A., & Johnson, R. O., (2000). "Additions to the Ammonite Fauna of the Upper Cretaceous Navesink Formation of New Jersey" American Museum Novitates 3306(1):1–30
Landman, Neal H. & Cobban, William A.. (2003) "Ammonites from the Upper Part of the Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formation of Colorado" American Museum Novitates 3388(1):1–45
Jeletzkytes is an extinct genus of scaphatoid ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of North America named and described by Riccardi, 1983. In overall form Jeletzkytes closely resembles the genus Scaphites.
A number of species have been described in the genus including:
J. brevis
J. compressus
J. crassus
J. criptonodosus
J. dorfi
J. furnivali
J. nebrascensis
J. nodosus
J. spedeni
References
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Jeletzkytes, Paleobiology Database. 13 Mar. 2013.
Neil H. Landman, Karl M Waage (Karl Mensch); Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 215, 1993. [1]
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