Otoites

Otoites
Otoites
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Stephanocerataceae
Family: Otoitidae
Genus: Otoites
Mascke, 1907[1]
Species
  • O. douvillei
  • O. sauzei
  • O. tumulosus

Otoites is the type genus of the ammonite family Otoitidae that live during the early part of the Middle Jurassic epoch.[2]

The Otoitidae, which is part of the superfamily Stephanocerataceae, are part of the well known subclass of prehistoric cephalopods known in general terms as ammonites[2]

Otoites is characterized by barrel-shaped, cadiconic, inner whorls and contracted last whorl; coarse ribs with long secondaries that come off of low lateral tubercles; and lappets flanking the aperture. [2]

References

  1. ^ Dietze, V.; et al (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany". Zitteliana 50: 71–88. http://rogov.zwz.ru/Dietze%20et%20al,2010.pdf. 
  2. ^ a b c Arkell et al, 1957; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; Geological Society of America and Univsity of Kansas press. part L (L232,L287)
  • Sepkoski, Jack, 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry). Bulletins of American Paleontology vol 364. [1]


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