Rasenia
Appearance
Rasenia | |
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Fossil shell of Rasenia cymodoce from Calvados (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
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
[edit]This genus gets its name from Market Rasen in Lincolnshire (Midland England), place where it is frequently found.
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Russia,[1] France and United Kingdom.
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