Heinzia

Heinzia
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), [1][2]
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
Family: †Pulchelliidae
Genus: †Heinzia
Sayn, 1890

Heinzia is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Pulchelliidae.[3] 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. ^ a b c "The Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  2. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
  3. ^ "Heinzia caicedi". Ammonites et autres spirales (in French). Retrieved 2016-12-08.
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