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Definition of Scaphite

Scaphite
Scaphite Scaph"ite, n. [L. scapha a boat, fr. Gr. ska`fh a boat, anything dug or scooped out, fr. ska`ptein to dig.] (Paleon.) Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.

Meaning of Scaphite from wikipedia

- Scaphites is a genus of heteromorph ammonites belonging to the Scaphitidae family. They were a widespread genus that thrived during the Late Cretaceous...
- Silurian Ordo- vician Camb- rian Pecten gibbus Calyptraphorus velatus Scaphites hippocrepis Perisphinctes tiziani Tropites subbullatus Leptodus americ****...
- went back to being regularly coiled. Most notable among these were the Scaphites, Hoploscaphites and their relatives, which were mostly regular spirals...
- Copelatus scaphites is a species of diving beetle. It is part of the subfamily Copelatinae in the family Dytiscidae. It was described by Félix Guignot...
- Riccardi, 1983. In overall form Jeletzkytes closely resembles the genus Scaphites. A number of species have been described in the genus including: J. brevis...
- mollusks, namely ammonites–from the Pierre Shale Placenticeras placenta, Scaphites nodosus, Didymoceras, and Baculites ovatus–bivalves–such as the giant...
- Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983 Ponteixites Warren, 1934 Rhaeboceras M****, 1876 Scaphites Parkinson, 1811 Trachyscaphites Cobban & Scott, 1964 Subfamily Incertae...
- ago Calyptraphorus velatus Tertiary Venericardia planicosta Eocene Scaphites Scaphites hippocrepis Cretaceous 143.1 to 66 million years ago Inoceramus Inoceramus...
- helically-coiled juvenile morphology of Hamites into adulthood. Baculites Scaphites Turrilites Szives, O.; Monks, N. (2002). "Heteromorphs of the Tata Limestone...
- location. They often contains fossils such as the ammonites Schloenbachia, Scaphites, and Mantelliceras, the belemnite Actinocamax, and the bivalves Inoceramus...