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{{short description|Genus of mollusks (fossil)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = SmallScaphites.jpg
| fossil_range = [[Cretaceous]], {{fossilrange|105|66}}
| image_caption = ''Scaphites'' sp. from Colorado Specimen is {{convert|2.8|cm|in}} from top to bottom
| taxon = Scaphites
| authority = [[James Parkinson|Parkinson]], 1811
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Scaphites''''' is a [[genus]] of heteromorph [[ammonite]]s belonging to the [[Scaphitidae]] family. They were a widespread genus that thrived during the [[Late Cretaceous]] period.

==Morphology==
''Scaphites'' generally have a chambered, boat-shaped shell. The initial part (juvenile stage) of the shell is generally more or less involute (tightly coiled) and compressed, giving no hint of the heteromorphic shell form yet to come. The terminal part (adult stage) is much shorter, erect, and bends over the older shell like a hook. They have transverse, branching ribs with tubercles (small bumps) along the venter.

[[Image:Scaphites suture.svg|thumb|200px|left|Suture pattern of ''Scaphites'']]Reconstructions of the body within the shell can be made to portray ''Scaphites'' as either a benthic (bottom-dwelling) or [[plankton]]ic animal, depending on where the center of gravity is located. Since useful [[fossil]]s of the soft-body parts of cephalopods are highly rare, little is known about how this animal actually fit into its shell and lived its life.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

==Age==
Because ''Scaphites'' and its relatives in the superfamily Scaphitoidea are restricted to certain ages of the [[Cretaceous]] (''ca.'' 144 to 66.4 million years ago), they are useful in some areas as an [[index fossil]]. A notable example is the Late Cretaceous [[Western Interior Seaway]] in North America, in which several [[Endemic (ecology)|endemic]] lineages of scaphite species evolved and now serve as the basis for a highly resolved regional [[biostratigraphy]].

== Species ==
* ''Scaphites aequalis'' † [[James Sowerby|J. Sowerby]], 1813
* ''Scaphites binneyi'' † [[John B. Reeside|Reeside]], 1927
* ''Scaphites carlilensis'' † [[Aubrey Lyndon Morrow|Morrow]], 1935
* ''Scaphites depressus'' † Reeside, 1927
* ''Scaphites ferronensis'' † [[William A. Cobban|Cobban]], 1951
* ''Scaphites frontierensis'' † Cobban, 1951
* ''Scaphites hippocrepis'' † [[James Ellsworth De Kay|DeKay]], 1827
* ''Scaphites impendicostatus'' † Cobban, 1951
* ''Scaphites leei'' † Reeside, 1927
* ''Scaphites nanus'' † Reeside, 1927
* ''Scaphites nodosus'' †
* ''Scaphites obliquus'' † [[James Sowerby|J. Sowerby]], 1813
* ''Scaphites preventricosus'' † Cobban, 1951
* ''Scaphites tetonensis'' † Cobban, 1951
* ''Scaphites uintensis'' † Cobban, 1951
* ''Scaphites warreni'' † [[Fielding Bradford Meek|Meek]] and [[Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden|Hayden]], 1860
* ''Scaphites whitfieldi'' † Cobban, 1951

== Distribution ==
Fossils of ''Scaphites'' have been found in [[Antarctica]], [[Armenia]], [[Australia]], [[Belgium]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Canada]] ([[Alberta]], [[British Columbia]], [[Northwest Territories]]), [[Denmark]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Greenland]], [[India]], [[Italy]], [[Japan]], [[Madagascar]], [[Mexico]], [[New Zealand]], [[South Africa]], [[Spain]], [[Sweden]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ukraine]], the [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United States]] ([[Alabama]], [[Alaska]], [[Arizona]], [[California]], [[Colorado]], [[Delaware]], [[Kansas]], [[Maryland]], [[Minnesota]], [[Mississippi]], [[Missouri]], [[Montana]], [[Nebraska]], [[New Jersey]], [[New Mexico]], [[North Dakota]], [[Oregon]], [[South Dakota]], [[Tennessee]], [[Texas]], [[Wyoming]]).<ref name=FWScaphites>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=95930 ''Scaphites''] at [[Fossilworks]].org</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060303122039/http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/ammonites/moreammonites.html Hypothetical reconstructions of various genera of Ancyloceratida]
* [http://www.ammonoid.com/Scaphites.htm Ammonoid.com]
* [http://www.ammonoid.com/ufc-Strat.htm A Biostratigraphic List of fossil Cephalopods in Utah]

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[[Category:Late Cretaceous ammonites of Europe]]
[[Category:Ammonitida genera]]
[[Category:Scaphitidae]]
[[Category:Cretaceous ammonites]]
[[Category:Ammonites of Antarctica]]
[[Category:Cretaceous ammonites of North America]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Mexico]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Europe]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Africa]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Asia]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1811]]

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