Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Parent taxon: Scaphitidae according to A. Tajika et al. 2018
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Brunnschweiler 1966, Cobban 1987, Cobban and Kennedy 1992, Grier and Grier 1998, Ifrim et al. 2015, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1993, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy and Christennsen 1993, Kennedy and Christensen 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy and Cobban 1994, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy and Gale 2015, Kennedy et al. 1992, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy and Kaplan 1995, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Kennedy and Summesberger 1987, Landman and Cobban 2003, Landman and Waage 1993, Niebuhr et al. 2016, Szives 2007, Ward and Kennedy 1993 and Wright 1979
Sister taxa: Clioscaphites, Hoploscaphites, Otoscaphitinae
Subtaxa: Acanthoscaphites Billcobbanoceras Desmoscaphites Discoscaphites Eoscaphites Haresiceras Indoscaphites Jeletzkytes Ponteixites Pteroscaphites Rhaeboceras Scaphites Trachyscaphites
Type: Scaphites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas collection)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Armenia (1), Australia (4), Austria (1), Belgium (5), Bulgaria (3), Canada (59: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Denmark (8), France (88), Germany (25), Greenland (11), India (3), Iran (1), Italy (1), Japan (9), Libya (1), Madagascar (5), Mexico (7), the Netherlands (4), New Zealand (6), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (4), Spain (2), Sweden (3), Switzerland (2), Tajikistan (3), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (22), United States (397: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 684 collections including 853 occurrences