Petitclercia
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Italic title". Template:Taxobox/core Petitclercia is a genus of molluscs from the strigoceratid subfamily Disticocratinae which are included in the ammonitid superfamily Haplocerataceae. Petitclercia, named by Rollier, 1909.
The shell of Petitclercia is involute, very compressed, with a sharp umbilical angle and sharp fastigate venter. Spath (1928)speculated that Petitclercia is perhaps "an involute development of Chanasia", another of the Distichoceratinae.
Distribution
Only found in the upper Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of Vendée, France.[1]
References
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- ↑ Paleobiology Database - Petitclercia. 2017-10-19.
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- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; (L279), Geological Society of America and Univ of Kansas press, 1964