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Cheltonia

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Phylum:Mollusca
Subclass:†Ammonoidea
Order:†Ammonitida
Cheltonia
Temporal range: Sinemurian[1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Oxynoticeratidae
Genus: †Cheltonia
Buckman, 1904
Type species
Ammonites accipitris
Buckman, 1844
Species
  • Cheltonia accipitris Buckman, 1844
  • Cheltonia galeata Hoffmann, 1944
  • Cheltonia oustense Rakús & Guex, 2002

Cheltonia is an extinct genus of ammonite from the Upper Sinemurian substage of Lower Jurassic of Europe, Africa,[2] and America.[citation needed] It is probably a microconch of genus Oxynoticeras.[1]

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