Pulchelliidae Temporal range:
Cretaceous (
Barremian age),
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Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific 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]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. [1]