Pictonia
| Pictonia Temporal range: Jurassic (Kimmeridgian),
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| Fossil shell of Pictonia baylei, on display at Natural History Museum, London | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Aulacostephanidae |
| Genus: | †Pictonia Bayle, 1878 |
Pictonia is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Aulacostephanidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, Kimmeridgian age (from 152.1 to 157.3 mya).[1][2]
Species
Species within this genus include:[1]
- Pictonia baylei[3]
- Pictonia densicostata
- Pictonia gracilis
- Pictonia seminudata
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Germany, Russia and United Kingdom.
References
- ^ a b Paleobiology Database
- ^ Sepkoski Online
- ^ "Ammonites". Archived from the original on 2021-05-15. Retrieved 2020-08-05.