Aulacostephanidae
Aulacostephanidae | |
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Fossil shell of Rasenia cymodoce from Calvados (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Superfamily: | †Perisphinctoidea |
Family: | †Aulacostephanidae Spath, 1924 |
Aulacostephanidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Upper Jurassic period, from the Oxfordian to Tithonian ages.
Genera[]
Genera within this family include: [1][2]
References[]
- JOHN K. WRIGHT The Aulacostephanidae (Ammonoidea) of the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary beds (Upper Jurassic) of southern England
- Ammonites
Categories:
- Ammonitida families
- Perisphinctoidea
- Jurassic ammonites
- Ammonites of Europe
- Kimmeridgian first appearances
- Late Jurassic extinctions
- Ammonitina stubs
- Aulacostephanidae