Pachysphinctes

Pachysphinctes
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian
Fossil of Pachysphinctes adelus from Jurassic of Russia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Perisphinctidae
Genus: †Pachysphinctes
Dietrich 1925

Pachysphinctes is an extinct genus of ammonites belonging to the Perisphinctidae family.

Fossil record

Fossils of Pachysphinctes are found in marine strata of the Jurassic (age range: from 150.8 to 145.5 million years ago.). Fossils are known from some localities in Antarctica, Cuba, Germany, India, Madagascar and Yemen.

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
  2. ↑ The Paleobiology Database