Sutneria

Sutneria
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctoidea
Family: Aulicostephanidae
Genus: 'Sutneria
Reinecke, 1818

Sutneria is a genus of small ammonites from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Europe (Germany). Its shell is generally evolute with a narrowly rounded whorl section and tubercles along the lower flanks.

Sutneria is assigned to the Aulicostephanidae, part of the superfamily Perisphinctoidea.

References

  • Sutneria playnota in jsdammonites.fr
  • Donovan, D.t. et al 1981. Classification of the Jurassic Ammonitina. The Ammonoidea, Systematics Assoc. special volume 18


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