Engonoceratidae
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Cephalopoda
- Order: Ammonoidea
- Family: Engonoceratidae
Overview
Engonoceratidae Hyatt, 1900
Common Name:
Extant/Extinct
Key morphological features: Involute, flat-sided shell with ribs that could be single or branching and sometimes irregular. Suture lines ornamented but with simple saddles.
SIZE:
Paleoecology:
MOBILITY: Mobile (swim)
FEEDING MODE: Predator
HABITAT: epifaunal
Family Engonoceratidae Hyatt, 1900
Duration: Middle Albian to Cenomanian (Source: Wright et al., 1996).
PaleoDB taxon number: 129288.
Sources:
Wright, C. W., 1996. Ammonoidea, in Kaesler, R. L., ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4 Revised, Volume 4. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 362 pp.
