Scaphites
Scaphites (Greek skafh, "a boat or anything dug or scooped out") is a genus of extinct cephalopod belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). They were a widespread genus that thrived during the Cretaceous period. Reconstructions of the body within the shell can be made to portray Scaphites as either a benthic (bottom-dwelling) or planktonic animal, depending on where the center of gravity is located. Since useful fossils of the soft-body parts of cephalopods are highly rare, little is known about how this animal actually fit into its shell and lived its life.
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Scaphites
Scaphites (Greek skafh, "a boat or anything dug or scooped out") is a genus of extinct cephalopod belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). They were a widespread genus that thrived during the Cretaceous period. Reconstructions of the body within the shell can be made to portray Scaphites as either a benthic (bottom-dwelling) or planktonic animal, depending on where the center of gravity is located. Since useful fossils of the soft-body parts of cephalopods are highly rare, little is known about how this animal actually fit into its shell and lived its life.
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La scafite (gen. Scaphites) è ...... ra, Francia) e in Nordamerica.
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Scaphites (Greek skafh, "a boa ...... lved regional biostratigraphy.
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Scaphites is een uitgestorven geslacht van mollusken, dat leefde tijdens het Laat-Krijt.
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船菊石(學名Scaphites)是一屬已滅絕的菊石目。它們廣 ...... ,當中有幾個特有的分支在那裡演化,都成為了生物地層學的基礎。
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Parkinson, 1811
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Scaphites sp. from Colorado
Specimen is 2.8 cm from top to bottom
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La scafite (gen. Scaphites) è ...... ra, Francia) e in Nordamerica.
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Scaphites (Greek skafh, "a boa ...... its shell and lived its life.
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Scaphites is een uitgestorven geslacht van mollusken, dat leefde tijdens het Laat-Krijt.
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船菊石(學名Scaphites)是一屬已滅絕的菊石目。它們廣 ...... ,當中有幾個特有的分支在那裡演化,都成為了生物地層學的基礎。
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Scaphites
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Scaphites
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Scaphites
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船菊石
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