Pulchelliidae

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Pulchelliidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), 136.4–125.45 Ma[1]
Pulchelliidae - Heinzia colleti.JPG
Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification e
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[]

[2]

  • (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]

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