Reineckeiidae

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Reineckeiidae
Temporal range: Jurassic, 171.6–155.7  Ma
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Fossil shell of Reineckeia anceps from Poitou (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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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]

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