Pulchelliidae
Pulchelliidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the superfamily Endemoceratoidea. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1]
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| Family: | Pulchelliidae Hyatt 1903 |
Subfamilies and genera
- 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 Colombia, France, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[1]
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References
- The Paleobiology Database
- Vermeulen, Jean., 1995: A new division in three parts of the Pulchelliidae family Ammonoidea
- Crioceratites
- Jean Vermeulen Origine, classification et évolution des Pulchellinae (Douville) 1911 emend. Vermeulen 1995 (Pulchelliidae, Endemoceratoidea)
- C. W. Wright, J. H. Calloman and M. K. Howarth, 1996 Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, volume 4 : cretaceous ammonoidea
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