Reineckeiidae

Reineckeiidae
Temporal range: Jurassic, 164.7–161.2 Ma

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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
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctoidea
Family: Reineckeiidae
Hyatt 1900

Reineckeiidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod famuly belonging to the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. [2]

These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, from the Callovian to the Oxfordian. [1]

Oxfordian

References

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