Pulchelliidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age),
Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Endemoceratoidea
Family: Pulchelliidae
Hyatt, 1903

Pulchelliidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family.[2] It was previously classified as belonging to the superfamily Endemoceratoidea. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1]

Subfamilies and genera[3]

  • Buergliceratinae
  • Psilotissotiinae
  • Pulchelliinae (Vermeulen 1995)
    • Nicklesia (Hyatt)
    • Pulchellia (Uhlid)
    • Gerhardtia (Hyatt)
    • Coronites (Hyatt)
    • Curiolites (Vermeulen)
    • Heinzia (Sayn)

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pulchelliidae". Fossilworks. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler ed.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, p. 111.
  3. Vermeulen, Jean (29 December 1995). "Nouvelle tripartition de la famille des Pulchelliidae (Ammonoidea) illustre par la description de trois especes des Alpes de Haute Provence". Riviéra Scientifique: 65–80.
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