Hamulinidae

Hamulinidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 140.2–99.7 Ma
Hamulina astieri from southern Alps, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée, Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Suborder: †Ancyloceratina
Superfamily: †Ancyloceratoidea
Family: †Hamulinidae
Gill, 1871
Hamulina subalternata sp. nov. Lower Barremian, Brestak, (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology

Hamulinidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the order Ammonitida.[1] These cephalopod were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Lower Cretaceous period (Lower Barremian - Upper Barremian).

  1. ^ Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised, Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et el. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, pp. 230-232.