Tissotiidae is a family of ammonites (
Ammonitina
Ammonitina comprises a diverse suborder of Ammonoidea, ammonite cephalopods that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of the Mesozoic Era. They are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which the ...
) belonging to the
Acanthoceratoidea
Acanthoceratoidea, formerly Acanthocerataceae, is a superfamily of Upper Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the order Ammonitida, and comprising some 10 or so families.W.J Arkell ''et al''., Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrat ...
.
The Tissotiidae are derived from the
Vascoceratidae, another acanthoceratoid family, and gave rise to the
Coilopoceratidae. They have been divided into two subfamilies, the earlier and more primitive Pseudotissotiinae and the more advanced and later Tissotiinae, which differ only in the details of the suture. (ibid)
Genera
Genera within the family Tissotiidae include:
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*'' Heterotissotia'' Peron, 1897
*'' Metatissotia''
*'' Paratissotia''
*'' Tissotia'' Douvillé, 1890
*'' Tissotioides'' Reyment, 1958
Description
Members (genera) of the Tissotiidae tend to have smooth, strongly involute shells with deeply impressed inner rims to the whorls where subsequent whorls wrap around those prior. Shells may be narrow and discoidal, broad and subspheroidal, or in between. Sides commonly have broad ribs, and on some, tubercles. The outer rim, known as the venter, may be wide and nearly flat, rounded, or narrow and even sharp. The suture in tissotiids is generally simple, either a simple form of ammonitic or ceratitic with smooth rounded saddles divergent forward and serrate lobes pointing to the rear. (Arkell et al.)
References
* Arkell, W.J. ''et al.'', Mesozoic Ammonoidea ''in'' the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,'' published from 1953–2007 by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas, then 2009–present by the University of Kansas Paleontological Institute, is a definitive multi-authore ...
, Part L, Ammonoidea: Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Pres. R.C; Moore (ed).
Ammonitida families
Acanthoceratoidea
Turonian first appearances
Santonian extinctions
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