Biology:Sonneratia (ammonite)

Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Sonneratia Temporal range: Cretaceous, 125.45–109.0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of Sonneratia dutempleana from France , on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Family:	†Hoplitidae
Subfamily:	†Sonneratiinae
Genus:	†Sonneratia Bayle, 1878

Sonneratia is an extinct genus of Cretaceous ammonites included in the family Hoplitidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous period, Aptian - Albian age.

Species

• Sonneratia dutempleana (Orbigny, 1850)
• Sonneratia kitchini Spath, 1925
• Sonneratia rotator Casey, 1965

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Canada, Denmark, France, Madagascar, United Kingdom and United States.

References

• Gayle Scott – Ammonites of the Genera Sonneratia and Douvilleiceras from the Cretaceous of Colombia

External links

• Ammonites

Wikidata ☰ Q12267520 entry