Reineckeia
| Reineckeia Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, [1] | |
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| Fossil shell of Reineckeia anceps from Poitou (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Reineckeiidae |
| Genus: | †Reineckeia Bayle 1818 |
Reineckeia is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Reineckeiidae.[2]
These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Middle Jurassic period, from the Bathonian age to the Callovian age.[3]
Description
[edit]Shells of Reineckeia species can reach a diameter of about 38 centimetres (15 in).
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Middle Jurassic Calabozo and Los Molles Formations of Argentina, Chile,[citation needed] France, the Berching Formation of Germany, Portugal,[citation needed] Chari Formation of India, Madagascar, Switzerland and United States[citation needed].[4]
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Ammonites
Data related to Reineckeia at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Perisphinctoidea
- Ammonitida genera
- Jurassic ammonites of Africa
- Jurassic Madagascar
- Fossils of Madagascar
- Jurassic ammonites of Asia
- Jurassic India
- Fossils of India
- Jurassic ammonites of Europe
- Jurassic France
- Fossils of France
- Jurassic Germany
- Fossils of Germany
- Jurassic Switzerland
- Fossils of Switzerland
- Jurassic ammonites of South America
- Jurassic Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 1818