Orthosphinctes

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Orthosphinctes
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian [1]
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Orthosphinctes sp., from Montejunto (Portugal), at the Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Ataxioceratidae
Genus: Orthosphinctes
Schindewolf, 1925
Species [2]
  • Orthosphinctes alternans

Orthosphinctes is a genus of ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida family Ataxioceratidae.

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They lived in the late Jurassic period, in the Kimmeridgian age, which occurred 155.7-152.1 million years ago. These shelled ammonoids were nektonic, fast-moving and carnivore.

Fossils distribution

Jurassic of Algeria, France, India, Iran, Italy, Madagascar, Spain, Yemen. [2]

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References

  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. 1 2 "Paleobiology Database - Pectinatites" . Retrieved 17 December 2021.