''Daxatina'' is a fossil
ammonoid
Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
cephalopod included in the
trachyceratid family of the order
Ceratitida
Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception being the phylloceratids which gave rise to the great diversity of post Triassic ammoni ...
that lived during the middle of the Triassic.
Distribution
Triassic of Canada, Italy, Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Alaska
References
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Fossils of Italy
Triassic ammonites
Fossils of Svalbard
Fossils of Canada
Ladinian genera
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