Heinzia

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Heinzia

| fossil_range = Cretaceous (Barremian age), {{Fossilrange|130.0|125.45}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.fossilworks.org |title=The Paleobiology Database |access-date=2021-12-17 |archive-date=2022-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home |url-status=live }}Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda]

| image = Pulchelliidae - Heinzia colleti.JPG

|image_caption = Fossil shell of Heinzia colleti from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| subclassis = Ammonoidea

| ordo = Ammonitida

| subordo = Ammonitina

| superfamilia = Endemoceratoidea

| familia = Pulchelliidae

| subfamilia = Pulchelliinae

| genus = Heinzia

| genus_authority = Sayn, 1890

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Heinzia is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Pulchelliidae.{{Cite news|url=http://www.ammonites.fr/Fiches/0485.htm|title=Heinzia caicedi|newspaper=Ammonites et autres spirales|language=fr|access-date=2016-12-08}} They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Colombia, France, Italy, Morocco and Spain.

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