Spathites

Systematic Paleontology

Class: Cephalopoda

Subclass: Ammonoidea

Order: Ammonitida

Family: Vascoceratidae

Genus: Spathites

Spathites is an Ammonoidea genus included in the Vascoceratidae known from the lower Turonian stage, Upper Cretaceous, of Texas. The shell is involute, with the outer whorl enveloping the inner whorls. Ribbing in faint. Sutures are ammonitic but not complex.

Some include Spathites in the Acanthoceratidae where it seems to fit poorly.

Paravascoceras, Thomasites, and Neoptychites are members of the Vascoceratidae similar in form.