Mazapilitinae
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| Mazapilitinae Temporal range: Kimmeridgian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Oppeliidae |
| Subfamily: | †Mazapilitinae Spath, 1928 |
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Mazapilitinae is a subfamily of Upper Jurassic ammonites included in the Oppeliidae. Shells are involute; venter rounded or gently tabulate; ribbing coarse, fold-like, branching.[1]
Genera include Mazapilites, Submazapilites, and Eurynoticeras, which have been found in Kimmeridgian age marine sediments in southern Europe and Mexico.[1]
