Pictonia
| Pictonia Temporal range: Jurassic (Kimmeridgian),
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| Fossil shell of Pictonia baylei, on display at Natural History Museum, London | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Class: | Cephalopoda
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| Genus: | Pictonia , 1878
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Pictonia is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Aulacostephanidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, Kimmeridgian age (from 152.1 to 157.3 mya).[1][2]
Species[]
Species within this genus include:[1]
- Pictonia baylei[3]
- Pictonia densicostata
- Pictonia gracilis
- Pictonia seminudata
Distribution[]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Germany, Russia and United Kingdom.
References[]
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- Ammonitida genera
- Jurassic ammonites
- Ammonites of Europe
- Aulacostephanidae
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