Sonneratia (ammonite)

Sonneratia (ammonite)
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 125.45–109.0 Ma

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Fossil of Sonneratia dutempleana 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
Superfamily: Hoplitaceae
Family: Hoplitidae
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, Albian age. [2]

Species

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Distribution

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

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