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Fossil of Kosmoclymenia (Muessenbiaergia) bisulcata from Sahara, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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Genus: | Kosmoclymenia Schindewolf, 1949
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Kosmoclymenia is a genus in the ammonoid order Clymeniida, in the family Kosmoclymeniidae.
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Description
[edit]Shells of these extinct cephalopods can reach a maximum diameter of 110 millimetres (4.3 in).[2] They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Devonian of China, Germany and Morocco.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- ^ a b GONIAT Online
- ^ The Paleobiology Database