Pachysphinctes

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

{{Taxobox

| name = Pachysphinctes

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Kimmeridgian|ref={{cite web| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| title = Sepkoski's Online Genus Database| author-link = | year = 2002| url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| accessdate = 2017-10-18| archive-date = 2016-02-25| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160225225905/http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| url-status = dead}}}}

| image = Perisphinctidae - Pachysphinctes adelus.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil of Pachysphinctes adelus from Jurassic of Russia

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| ordo = Ammonitida

| familia = Perisphinctidae

| genus = Pachysphinctes

| genus_authority = Dietrich 1925

}}

Pachysphinctes is an extinct genus of ammonites belonging to the Perisphinctidae family.

Fossil record

Fossils of Pachysphinctes are found in marine strata of the Jurassic (age range: from 150.8 to 145.5 million years ago.). Fossils are known from some localities in Antarctica, Cuba, Germany, India, Madagascar and Yemen.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15313 The Paleobiology Database]

References

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Category:Jurassic ammonites

Category:Ammonitida genera

Category:Perisphinctidae

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