Acanthaecites Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Mollusca
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Class: | Cephalopoda
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Subclass: | Ammonoidea
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Genus: | Acanthaecites Rollier 1909
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Acanthaecites is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the ammonoid family Oppeliidae first described by Rollier in 1909.[2] Acanthaecites both appears and disappears from the fossil record during the Callovian stage of the Jurassic Period.
The shell of Acanthaecites is small, globose and smooth except for a median ventral row of distinct sharp serrations.