Heinzia
| Heinzia Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), 130.0–125.45 Ma | |
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| Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | Ammonitina |
| Superfamily: | Endemocerataceae |
| Family: | Pulchelliidae |
| Subfamily: | Pulchelliinae |
| Genus: | Heinzia Sayn, 1890 |
Heinzia is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Pulchelliidae. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age. [1][2]
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Colombia, France, Italy, Morocco and Spain. [1]
References
- 1 2 3 The Paleobiology Database
- 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- Crioceratites
- Jean Vermeulen Origine, classification et évolution des Pulchellinae (Douville) 1911 emend. Vermeulen 1995 (Pulchelliidae, Endemocerataceae)
- C. W. Wright, J. H. Calloman and M. K. Howarth, 1996 Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, volume 4 : cretaceous ammonoidea
- Vermeulen, Jean., 1995: A new division in three parts of the Pulchelliidae family Ammonoidea Riviera Scientifique, 65-80
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