Cymbitidae

Cymbitidae is family of ammonite that lived during Sinemurian and Pliensbachian stages of Lower Jurassic. They have probably evolved from Arietitidae.[1]

Cymbitidae
Temporal range: Sinemurian–Pliensbachian [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Superfamily: †Psiloceratoidea
Family: †Cymbitidae
Buckman, 1919

Description

Ammonites belonging to this family had shells with sphaeroconic involute inner whorls that later during ontogeny become evolute and last whorl is highly eccentric. They were small and mostly less than 2 cm in diameter. Venter is smooth, fastigate or rounded. There was constriction on aperture. Ornamentation was weak, as shell was smooth or plicate and only rarely there were lateral tubercules.[1]

Genera

Cymbitidae is probably monogeneric family. It is named after genus Cymbites Neumayr, 1878. One more genus has been added there and it is Hyerifalchia Fucini, 1907, but this one is probably only a synonym of Cymbites.[1]

Distribution

Ammonites of this family were found in Europe, US and Tunisia.[1]

References
  1. M. K. Howarth 2013. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea.


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