Pulchelliidae

Pulchelliidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the superfamily Endemoceratoidea. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1]

Pulchelliidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), 136.4–125.45 Ma[1]
Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Pulchelliidae

Hyatt 1903

Subfamilies and genera

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  • Buergliceratinae
  • Psilotissotiinae
  • Pulchelliinae (Vermeulen 1995
    • Nicklesia (Hyatt)
    • Pulchellia (Uhlid)
    • Gerhardtia (Hyatt)
    • Coronites (Hyatt)
    • Curiolites (Vermeulen)
    • Heinzia (Sayn)

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Colombia, France, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[1]

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