Karapadites
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Karapadites is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean
family Kossmaticeratidae and considered by some to be a subgenus of Kossmaticeras.
Karapadites (=K(Karapadites)) which lived during the Late Cretaceous in the late Campanian has a strongly ribbed evolute shell, all whorls exposed, ribs crossing the rounded outer rim, or venter.
Desmocerataceae
Desmocerataceae is a superfamily of Cretaceous ammonites, generally with round or oval-whorled shells that are mostly smooth or weakly ribbed and rarely tuberculate, but commonly with constrictions...
family Kossmaticeratidae and considered by some to be a subgenus of Kossmaticeras.
Karapadites (=K(Karapadites)) which lived during the Late Cretaceous in the late Campanian has a strongly ribbed evolute shell, all whorls exposed, ribs crossing the rounded outer rim, or venter.
References
- Arkell, et al 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, L374; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L (Ammonoidea); Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press.
- Sepkoski's list of Cephalopod genera