''Silesites'' is an
ammonite
Ammonoids are extinct, (typically) coiled-shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (which comprise the clade Coleoidea) than they are to nautiluses (family N ...
genus placed in the family
Silesitidae
Silesitidae is an ammonite family in the superfamily Desmoceratoidea. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.
Taxonomy
* '' Neoastieria''
* '' Piatnitzkyceras''
* '' Silesites''
* Silesitoidinae
Distribution
Fossils of species ...
. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...
, in the
Barremian
The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 125.77 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma (Historically, this stage was placed at 129.4 million to approximately 125 million years ago) It is a ...
age.
[ The type species of the genus is ''Silesites seranonis ''.][
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Species
* ''Silesites seranonis''
* ''Silesites vulpes''
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...
sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.
File:Silesites vulpes 01.jpg, ''Silesites vulpes''
References
Cretaceous ammonites
Fossils of Mexico
Fossils of Antarctica
Desmoceratoidea
Ammonitida genera
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