Kosmoclymenia
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Fossil of Kosmoclymenia (Muessenbiaergia) bisulcata from Sahara, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Class: | Cephalopoda
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Genus: | Kosmoclymenia Schindewolf, 1949
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Kosmoclymenia is a genus in the ammonoid order Clymeniida, in the family Kosmoclymeniidae.
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Description[]
Shells of these extinct cephalopods can reach a maximum diameter of 110 millimetres (4.3 in).[2] They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.
Distribution[]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Devonian of China, Germany and Morocco.[3]
References[]
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- ^ a b GONIAT Online
- ^ The Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Fossils of Germany
- Late Devonian ammonites
- Fossils of China
- Fossils of Morocco
- Famennian life
- Famennian genus first appearances
- Famennian genus extinctions
- Ammonite genera
- Clymeniina
- Ammonite stubs