Fresvillia

Fresvillia
Temporal range: U Cretaceous
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Ancyloceratida
Family: Baculitidae
Genus: Fresvillia
Kennedy, 1986

Fresvillia is an extinct molluscan genus belonging to baculitid family of the cephalopod order Ancyloceratida that lived during the Late Cretaceous, found in France. Baculitids are a kind of heteromorph ammonite characterized by a straight adult shaft preceded by a small coiled juvenile portion.

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