Kossmatella
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| Kossmatella Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil shells of Kossmatella agassizianum from Maritime Alps, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Gaudryceratidae |
| Genus: | †Kossmatella Jacob, 1907 |
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Kossmatella is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores [2] lived in the Cretaceous period, from Albian age to Cenomanian age.[1]
