# Cadomites

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***Cadomites*** is an extinct [ammonite](/source/Ammonite) genus from the superfamily [Stephanoceratoidea](/source/Stephanoceratoidea) that lived during the [Middle Jurassic](/source/Middle_Jurassic) (upper [Bajocian](/source/Bajocian) – lower [Callovian](/source/Callovian)).[1]

## Description

*Cadomites* is directly descended from *[Stephanoceras](/source/Stephanoceras)*, with a similar collared and lipped aperture rim, but has denser, finer, sharper ribbing. The shell is discoidal, evolute, with a wide umbilicus. The [suture](/source/Suture_(anatomy)) is complex.

## Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the [Middle Jurassic](/source/Middle_Jurassic) sediments in Europe, Africa and South Asia.[2]

## References

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). ["A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160225225905/http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class). *Bulletins of American Paleontology*. **363**: 1–560. Archived from [the original](http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class) on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-10-18.

1. ["Paleobiology Database - Cadomites"](https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14657). Retrieved 2017-10-19.

### Bibliography

- *[Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology](/source/Treatise_on_Invertebrate_Paleontology)*, Part L, Ammonoidea, -Stephanocerataceae; Geological Society of America, 1957, reprinted 1990

## External links

- [Ammonites.fr: Ammonites website](http://www.ammonites.fr/Fiches/0804.htm)

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