Leptosphinctes
Appearance
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Leptosphinctes sp., microconch, Dorset, England, Middle Jurassic. | |
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Genus: | Leptosphinctes
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Leptosphinctes is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil cephalopods, the ammonites. It lived during the Jurassic Period,[1] which lasted from approximately 200 to 145 million years ago.
Distribution
[edit]Jurassic deposits of British Columbia, Egypt, Hungary, Iran, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia and Spain.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
- ^ Paleobiology Database - Leptosphinctes. 2017-10-19.