Epicephalites

Epicephalites
Temporal range: U Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Perisphinctidae
Genus: †Epicephalites
Spath, 1928

Epicephalites is a perisphinctid ammonite, included in the subfamily Aulacostephaninae, from the Upper Jurassic of New Zealand and Mexico, related to Involuticeras. Its shell is involute, whorls inflated with a deep umbilicus. The outer half including the venter is ribbed; the inner half is smooth.

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