Taffertia
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| Taffertia Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil shell of Taffertia taffertensis from High Atlas (Morocco), in personal collection | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Hildoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Harpoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Taffertia Guex, 1973 |
| Type species | |
| Taffertia taffertensis Guex, 1973 | |
Taffertia is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the family Hildoceratidae. These cephalopods existed in the Jurassic period, during Toarcian age in the Falciferum zone and possibly only in Exaratum subzone. Its fossils were found in Canada, Morocco, Algeria and Italy.[1][2][3]
