Macroscaphites
Sign in to saveMacroscaphites is an extinct cephalopod genus included in the Ammonoidea that lived during the Barremian and Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous (118 - 110 million years ago). Its fossils have been found throughout most of Europe and North Africa.
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Macroscaphites is an extinct cephalopod genus included in the Ammonoidea that lived during the Barremian and Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous (118 - 110 million years ago). Its fossils have been found throughout most of Europe and North Africa.
Macroscaphites is known to have reached a length of about . The shell is in two basic parts, an early planispirally coiled evolute section followed by a more or less straight section that turns back on itself in a hook.
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Albian lifeAmmonites of AfricaAmmonites of South AmericaAptian lifeBarremian genus first appearancesCenomanian lifeCretaceous ammonitesCretaceous ammonites of EuropeCretaceous ammonites of North AmericaCretaceous animals of AfricaCretaceous animals of South AmericaFossils of EgyptFossils of FranceFossils of Georgia (country)Fossils of ItalyFossils of MexicoFossils of MozambiqueFossils of SerbiaFossils of South AfricaFossils of SpainFossils of the Czech RepublicFossils of VenezuelaFossil taxa described in 1876Turonian genus extinctions