Olcostephanidae

Olcostephanidae
Temporal range: from Jurassic to Cretaceous, 150.8–125.45 Ma
[1]
Fossil of Olcostephanus astierianus from 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
Suborder: Ammonitina
Superfamily: Perisphinctoidea
Family: Olcostephanidae
Haug, 1910

Olcostephanidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous period.[1]

Genera[1]

  • Olcostephanus Neumayr, 1875
  • Saynoceras
  • Subastieria Spath, 1923
  • Taraisites Canta-Chapa, 1966
  • Valanginites Sayn, 1910

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Argentina, Austria, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Russia, United States, as well as in the Jurassic of Argentina and Mexico.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 The Paleobiology Database


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