Neocomitidae is a family ofLower Cretaceousammonitids comprising genera with strongly ribbed evolute (all whorls exposed) to smooth, fairly involute (inner whorls mostly hidden) shells.[1]
In the 1957 description of the family[2] Neocomitidae was regarded as the subfamily Neocomitinae within theBerriasellidae, a family within thePerisphinctoidea that ranged from the Late Jurassic into the Early Cretaceous. In a more recent treatment[3] berriaselids are regarded as a subfamily within the Neocomitidae.
Current opinion differs from the 1967 placement of Neocomitidae in the Perisphinctoidea[2] but rather includes it in the superfamilyEndemoceratoidea.[4][5]
^Wright, C. W. withCallomon, J.H. andHowarth, M.K. (1996),Mollusca 4 Revised, Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, inTreatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler ed.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 49-67.
^abArkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957).Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
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Wright C.W. with J.H. Callomon and M.K. Howarth (1996). "Mollusca 4 Revised: Cretaceous Ammonoidea". In Roger L. Kaesler (ed.).Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Vol. 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: The Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. p. 49 – viaInternet Archive.
