| Reineckeiidae | |
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| Fossil shell of Reineckeia anceps from Poitou (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
| Order: | † Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | † Perisphinctoidea |
| Family: | † Reineckeiidae Hyatt 1900 |
Reineckeiidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. [2]
These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, from the Callovian to the Oxfordian. [1]