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Ankinatsytes

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Ankinatsytes
Temporal range: Coniacian
~89.3–85.8 Ma[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Family: Nostoceratidae
Genus: Ankinatsytes
Collignon 1965
Species
  • A. venezolanus Renz,1982
  • A. yabei Collignon,1965

Ankinatsytes is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. The ammonite is from the Late Cretaceous of Colombia (Loma Gorda Formation) and Venezuela (La Luna Formation).[2][3]

Species

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The following species have been described:[4]

  • Ankinatsytes venezolanus
  • Ankinatsytes yabei

References

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  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. Ankinasytes[dead link] at Fossilworks.org
  3. Patarroyo, 2011
  4. Ankinatsytes at Fossilworks.org

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