Pavlovia

Pavlovia
Temporal range: Tithonian–Late Cretaceous[1]
Pavlovia species from Ural Mountains
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctoidea
Family: Dorsoplanitidae
Genus: Pavlovia

Pavlovia is an extinct genus of ammonite[2] of the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous (age range: 150.8 to 99.7 Ma). [1]

Species

Description

The shells of these fast-moving nektonic carnivores reach a diameter of about 40 millimetres (1.6 in). They are distinctively-ribbed, with windings that do not overlap largely each other. The suture lines are complicated and securely fastened to the shell wall.

Distribution

Fossils of these ammonites have been found in Tithonian-aged marine strata of Late Jurassic Russia, and in Cretaceous-aged marine-strata of Great Britain.

References

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


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