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Definition of Scaphites

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 Scaphites from wikipedia

- scaphite species evolved and now serve as the basis for a highly resolved regional biostratigraphy. Scaphites aequalis † J. Sowerby, 1813 Scaphites binneyi...
- 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...
- went back to being regularly coiled. Most notable among these were the Scaphites, Hoploscaphites and their relatives, which were mostly regular spirals...
- Silurian Ordo- vician Camb- rian Pecten gibbus Calyptraphorus velatus Scaphites hippocrepis Perisphinctes tiziani Tropites subbullatus Leptodus americ****...
- ago Calyptraphorus velatus Tertiary Venericardia planicosta Eocene Scaphites Scaphites hippocrepis Cretaceous 143.1 to 66 million years ago Inoceramus Inoceramus...
- Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983 Ponteixites Warren, 1934 Rhaeboceras M****, 1876 Scaphites Parkinson, 1811 Trachyscaphites Cobban & Scott, 1964 Subfamily Incertae...
- terrestrial life. Later during the ensuing Late Cretaceous epoch the ammonite Scaphites was especially common in Utah's marine environments. Into the Cenozoic...
- mollusks, namely ammonites–from the Pierre Shale Placenticeras placenta, Scaphites nodosus, Didymoceras, and Baculites ovatus–bivalves–such as the giant...
- †Scapanorhynchus tex**** †Scapherpeton †Scaphites †Scaphites hippocrepis - or unidentified loosely related form †Scaphites warreni †Schizobasis Scintilla – tentative...
- family Scaphitidae. It is considered by some to be a subgenus of Scaphites. Like Scaphites, the s**** of Hoploscaphites is involute with the final whorl...