Perisphinctes
Extinct genus of ammonite / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perisphinctes is an extinct genus of ammonite cephalopod. They lived during the Middle to Late Jurassic epochs and serve as an index fossil for that time period.[5] The species P. boweni was named after the English chemist and geologist E. J. Bowen (1898–1980).[6]
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Perisphinctes | |
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Exhibit from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Perisphinctidae |
Subfamily: | †Perisphinctinae |
Genus: | †Perisphinctes Waagen, 1869[2] |
Type species | |
Ammonites variocostatus[3] Buckland, 1836 | |
Species[4] | |
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