Pulchelliidae
| Pulchelliidae Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), 136.4–125.45 Ma | |
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| Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | Ammonitina |
| Superfamily: | Endemocerataceae |
| Family: | Pulchelliidae Hyatt 1903 |
Pulchelliidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the superfamily Endemocerataceae. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age. [1]
Subfamilies and genera
- Buergliceratinae
- Psilotissotiinae
- Pulchelliinae (Vermeulen 1995
- Nicklesia (Hyatt)
- Pulchellia (Uhlid)
- Gerhardtia (Hyatt)
- Coronites (Hyatt)
- Curiolites (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
- 1 2 3 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, Endemocerataceae)
- C. W. Wright, J. H. Calloman and M. K. Howarth, 1996 Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, volume 4 : cretaceous ammonoidea
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