Binneyitidae
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Cephalopoda
- Order: Ammonoidea
- Family: Binneyitidae
Overview
Binneyitidae Reeside, 1927
Common Name:
Extant/Extinct
Key morphological features: Shell is compressed, flat-sided, with weak ornamentation. Shell usually have a nacreous (shiny) luster. Suture lines have one or more bifurcated lobes with parallel sides.
SIZE:
Paleoecology:
MOBILITY: Mobile (swim)
FEEDING MODE: Predator
HABITAT: epifaunal
Duration: Upper Albian to Lower Santonian (Source: Wright et al., 1996).
PaleoDB taxon number: 134167.
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.
