Pulchelliidae
Pulchelliidae Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age),
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Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, 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: | †Endemoceratoidea |
Family: | †Pulchelliidae Hyatt, 1903 |
Pulchelliidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the superfamily Endemoceratoidea. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1]
Subfamilies and genera[]
- (Vermeulen 1995
- (Hyatt)
- (Uhlid)
- (Hyatt)
- (Hyatt)
- (Vermeulen)
- Heinzia (Sayn)
Distribution[]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Colombia, France, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c The Paleobiology Database
- ^ Vermeulen, Jean., 1995: A new division in three parts of the Pulchelliidae family Ammonoidea
- Crioceratites
- Jean Vermeulen Origine, classification et évolution des Pulchellinae (Douville) 1911 emend. Vermeulen 1995 (Pulchelliidae, Endemoceratoidea)
- C. W. Wright, J. H. Calloman and M. K. Howarth, 1996 Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, volume 4 : cretaceous ammonoidea
Categories:
- Ammonitida families
- Endemoceratoidea
- Ammonitina stubs