Fagesia

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Phylum:Mollusca
Subclass:Ammonoidea
Order:Ammonitida
Fagesia
Temporal range: Turonian
92–88 Ma
Fossil of Fagesia spheroidalis from Japan. Late Cretaceous. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Vascoceratidae
Genus: Fagesia
Pervinquière 1907
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Fagesia is a small, subglobular ammonite (suborder Ammonitina) belonging to the vascoceratid family of the Acanthocerataceae that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous, 92–88 Ma ago.

The shell of Fagesia is about 9.5 cm (3.47 in) in diameter, typically with blunt umbilical tubercles from which spring 2 or three ribs each, but which are lost in the late growth stage. The suture is ammonitic with long spikey lobes and saddles with rounded subelements.

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