Pictonia Temporal range:
Jurassic (
Kimmeridgian),
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Fossil shell of Pictonia baylei, on display at Natural History Museum, London | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Aulacostephanidae |
Genus: | †
Pictonia Bayle, 1878 |
Pictonia is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Aulacostephanidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, Kimmeridgian age (from 152.1 to 157.3 mya). [1] [2]
Species within this genus include: [1]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Germany, Russia and United Kingdom.