Darellia

Darellia
Temporal range: Bajocian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Hildoceratoidea
Family: Graphoceratidae
Genus: Darellia

Darellia is an extinct genus included in the ammonite family Graphoceratidae that lived during the Bajocian stage of the middle Jurassic.[1]

Darellia may be a junior synonym for Hyperflioceras which has been found in Jurassic of Luxembourg, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia.[2]

Brasilia, Graphoceras, and Ludwigia are related genera.

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. Hyperlioceras in Fossilworks
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