Sonneratia (ammonite)
| Sonneratia Temporal range: Cretaceous, [1]
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| Fossil of Sonneratia dutempleana from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Hoplitidae |
| Subfamily: | †Sonneratiinae |
| Genus: | †Sonneratia Bayle, 1878 |
Sonneratia is an extinct genus of Cretaceous ammonites included in the family Hoplitidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous period, Aptian - Albian age.[2]
Species
[edit]- Sonneratia dutempleana (Orbigny, 1850)
- Sonneratia kitchini Spath, 1925
- Sonneratia rotator Casey, 1965
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Canada, Denmark, France, Madagascar, United Kingdom and United States.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c The Paleobiology Database
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
External links
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