Reineckeia
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| Reineckeia Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, [1] | |
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| Fossil shell of Reineckeia anceps from Poitou (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Reineckeiidae |
| Genus: | †Reineckeia Bayle 1818 |
Reineckeia is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Reineckeiidae.[2]
These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Middle Jurassic period, from the Bathonian age to the Callovian age.[3]
Shells of Reineckeia species can reach a diameter of about 38 centimetres (15 in).
