Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Alternative spelling: Jeletzkyites
Synonym: Karlwaageites Cooper 1994
Parent taxon: Scaphitinae according to N. H. Landman and W. A. Cobban 2003
See also Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy and Cobban 1994, Kennedy et al. 1997, Landman and Waage 1993, Monks 2000 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthoscaphites, Billcobbanoceras, Desmoscaphites, Discoscaphites, Eoscaphites, Haresiceras, Indoscaphites, Ponteixites, Pteroscaphites, Rhaeboceras, Scaphites, Trachyscaphites
Subtaxa: Jeletzkytes compressus Jeletzkytes crassus Jeletzkytes criptonodosus Jeletzkytes dorfi Jeletzkytes furnivali Jeletzkytes nebrascensis Jeletzkytes spedeni
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (10: Saskatchewan collections), Germany (2), United States (79: Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 91 collections each including a single occurrence
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