Parkinsonia Temporal range:
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Fossil of Parkinsonia parkinsoni from Great Britain, on display at the Natural History Museum, London | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Parkinsoniidae |
Subfamily: | † Parkinsoniinae |
Genus: | †
Parkinsonia Bayle, 1878 |
Parkinsonia is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Parkinsoniidae. [2]
These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived from the Bajocian age to the Bathonian age of the Middle Jurassic. [1]
Parkinsonia species have a compressed spiral shell with strong ribbing. [3]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic of France, Germany, Iran, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States. [2]