Anahamulina
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''Anahamulina'' is an extinct
ammonoid Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
cephalopod genus from the Lower Cretaceous. Named by Hyatt, 1900.


Description

''Anahamulina'' is characterized by an increasingly wide shaft that bends sharply to the opposite direction, at some point ending in a shorter terminal section. The two sections are not in lateral contact. with and (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. 231, 232. The first, and earlier, shaft has fine, dense, oblique ribs, which in the second, and later, shaft are stronger and more radial. Two species are recognized. The type ''Anahamulina subcylindrica'', named by Hyatt, 1900, is based on ''Hamulina subcylindrica'' d'Orbigny 1850.


Distribution

It is found in Europe and Japan. ''Anahamulina wilcoxensis'' named by Imlay, 1960, is known from California and Oregon.


References


External links

*Arkell ''et al.'', 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea (L215); Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L Ammonoidea. Geological Soc. of America and Univ Kansas Press * * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q3728076 Early Cretaceous ammonites of North America Ammonitida genera Ancyloceratoidea