Reineckeia
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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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Genus: | Reineckeia Bayle 1818
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Reineckeia is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Reineckeiidae.[2]
These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Middle Jurassic period, from the Bathonian age to the Callovian age.[3]
Description
Shells of Reineckeia species can reach a diameter of about 38 centimetres (15 in).
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Middle Jurassic of Argentina, Chile,[citation needed] France, Germany, Portugal, India, Madagascar, Switzerland and United States.[4]
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