Definition of Scaphite. Meaning of Scaphite. Synonyms of Scaphite

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Definition of Scaphite

Scaphite
Scaphite Scaph"ite, n. [L. scapha a boat, fr. Gr. ska`fh a boat, anything dug or scooped out, fr. ska`ptein to dig.] (Paleon.) Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.

Meaning of Scaphite from wikipedia

- Scaphites is a genus of heteromorph ammonites belonging to the Scaphitidae family. They were a widespread genus that thrived during the Late Cretaceous...
- Silurian Ordo- vician Camb- rian Pecten gibbus Calyptraphorus velatus Scaphites hippocrepis Perisphinctes tiziani Tropites subbullatus Leptodus americ****...
- Copelatus scaphites is a species of diving beetle. It is part of the subfamily Copelatinae in the family Dytiscidae. It was described by Félix Guignot...
- ago Calyptraphorus velatus Tertiary Venericardia planicosta Eocene Scaphites Scaphites hippocrepis Cretaceous 145 to 66 million years ago Inoceramus Inoceramus...
- abundant ammonite fauna it yields, including Baculites, Placenticeras, Scaphites, Hoploscaphites and Jeletzkytes, as well as many uncoiled forms. Many...
- went back to being regularly coiled. Most notable among these were the Scaphites, Hoploscaphites and their relatives, which were mostly regular spirals...
- mollusks, namely ammonites–from the Pierre Shale Placenticeras placenta, Scaphites nodosus, Didymoceras, and Baculites ovatus–bivalves–such as the giant...
- helically-coiled juvenile morphology of Hamites into adulthood. Baculites Scaphites Turrilites Szives, O.; Monks, N. (2002). "Heteromorphs of the Tata Limestone...
- terrestrial life. Later during the ensuing Late Cretaceous epoch the ammonite Scaphites was especially common in Utah's marine environments. Into the Cenozoic...
- back to the Cretaceous period, Fossil remains include Inoceramus and Scaphites. Originally named by George Gryc and others as the marine formation of...