Schlotheimia
Sign in to saveWikidata facts
- Image
- Schlotheimiidae - Schlotheimia depressa.JPG
Show 5 more facts
- start time
- 201600000-
- taxon name
- Schlotheimia
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Schlotheimia
- end time
- 189600000-
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Distribution
- References
- Further reading
Schlotheimia is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea that lived during the Hettangian stage at the beginning of the Early Jurassic.
==Description== The shell, or conch, of Schlotheimia rather evolute, coiled with all whorls exposed and only slightly embracing. The umbilicus is perforate as with more finely ribbed Angulaticeras. whorls are compressed, bearing ribs that cross the venter in chevrons, less developed in Sulciferites
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schlotheimia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.