Heinzia

Heinzia Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age), 130.0–125.45 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ [1][2]
Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Order:	Ammonitida
Suborder:	Ammonitina
Superfamily:	Endemoceratoidea
Family:	Pulchelliidae
Subfamily:	Pulchelliinae
Genus:	Heinzia Sayn, 1890

Heinzia is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Pulchelliidae.[3] They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1][2]

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Colombia, France, Italy, Morocco and Spain.[1]

References

1. "The Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
2. Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
3. "Heinzia caicedi". Ammonites et autres spirales (in French). Retrieved 2016-12-08.

External links

• Crioceratites
• Jean Vermeulen Origine, classification et évolution des Pulchellinae (Douville) 1911 emend. Vermeulen 1995 (Pulchelliidae, Endemoceratoidea)
• "Heinzia". Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Retrieved 11 June 2023.
• Wright C.W. with J.H. Callomon and M.K. Howarth (1996). "Mollusca 4 Revised: Cretaceous Ammonoidea". In Roger L. Kaesler (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Vol. 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: The Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. p. 111 – via Internet Archive.
• Vermeulen, Jean., 1995: A new division in three parts of the Pulchelliidae family Ammonoidea Riviera Scientifique, 65-80