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Rasenia

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Rasenia
Temporal range: Jurassic (Kimmeridgian), 155.7–150.8 Ma
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Fossil shell of Rasenia cymodoce from Calvados (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Aulacostephanidae
Genus: Rasenia
Salfeld, 1913

Rasenia is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Upper Jurassic period, in the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian ages.[1]

Etymology

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This genus gets its name from Market Rasen in Lincolnshire (Midland England), place where it is frequently found.

Distribution

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Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Russia,[1] France and United Kingdom.

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