# Cladiscites

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***Cladiscites*** is an extinct genus of cephalopods in the [ammonoid](/source/Ammonoidea) order [Ceratitida](/source/Ceratitida). These nektonic carnivores [1] lived during the [Triassic](/source/Triassic), from [Carnian](/source/Carnian) to [Rhaetian](/source/Rhaetian) age.[2]

## Distribution

Fossils of species within this family have been found in the [Triassic](/source/Triassic) of Afghanistan, Hungary, Italy, Oman, Tajikistan, United States[1] and the East Indies.

## References

**Notes**

1. ["Paleobiology Database - Cladiscites"](https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14073). Retrieved 2014-05-28.

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). ["Sepkoski's Online Genus Database"](http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class). Retrieved 2014-05-28.

**Weblinks**

- [James Perrin Smith](/source/James_Perrin_Smith) [Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America](https://books.google.com/books?id=nornAAAAMAAJ&dq=Cladiscites&pg=PA70)
- [Mikko's Phylogeny Archive](https://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/mollusca/cephalopoda/ammonoidea/ceratitida.html)

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