Barremitinae is a
subfamily
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belonging to the
Ammonoidea
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 cuttle ...
subclass.
[ 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, at 69.]
Description
Whorl
A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).
Whorls in nature
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section in this group ranges from more or less circular through rectangular to oxyconic. Ribbing, if present, is weak.
Suture is relatively simple, without markedly retracted suspensive lobe.
This animal lived during the
Lower Cretaceous, from Upper
Valanginian to Upper
Barremian.
Distribution
It has been recorded from
Morocco,
Spain (
Granada
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,
Murcia,
Jaén),
France (
Provence),
Italy,
Austria,
Hungary,
Slovakia,
Bulgaria,
Georgia,
Oregon, United States,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Japan
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, and
Egypt.
,
Geologica Carpathica
'', December 2011, 62, 6.
References
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Cretaceous ammonites
Ammonites of Europe
Barremian life
Cretaceous Morocco
Fossils of Morocco
Cretaceous France
Fossils of France
Fossils of the United States
Cretaceous Italy
Fossils of Italy
Fossils of Slovakia
Cretaceous Spain
Fossils of Spain
Fossils of Japan