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Cadomites deslongchampsii Type species of the genus - Bayeux France MHNT | |
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Genus: | Cadomites Munier-Chalmas 1892
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Cadomites is an extinct ammonite genus from the superfamily Stephanoceratoidea that lived during the Middle Jurassic (upper Bajocian – lower Callovian).[1]
Cadomites is directly descended from 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 is complex.
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Middle Jurassic sediments in Europe, Africa and South Asia.[2]