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Leptosphinctes Temporal range: Bathonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Leptosphinctes sp., microconch, Dorset, England, Middle Jurassic.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Genus:	Leptosphinctes

Leptosphinctes is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil cephalopods, the ammonites. It lived during the Jurassic Period, which lasted from approximately 200 to 145 million years ago.

Distribution

Jurassic deposits of British Columbia, Egypt, Hungary, Iran, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia and Spain.

References

1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
2. Paleobiology Database - Leptosphinctes. 2017-10-19.

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