Kingdom Animalia Class Cephalopoda Order Ammonitida Rank Family | Phylum Mollusca Subclass Ammonoidea Suborder Ammonitina | |
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Similar Ammonites, Olcostephanus, Neocomitidae, Echioceratidae, Neocomites | ||
Olcostephanidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous period.
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Argentina, Austria, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Russia, United States, as well as in the Jurassic of Argentina and Mexico.
References
Olcostephanidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA