Pulchelliidae

{{Short description|Family of molluscs (fossil)}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Cretaceous (Barremian age), {{Fossilrange|136.4|125.45|ref=<ref name=fa>{{cite web |url= https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=100777 |title= Pulchelliidae |publisher= Fossilworks |access-date= 15 June 2022}}</ref>}} | image = Pulchelliidae - Heinzia colleti.JPG | image_caption = Fossil shell of ''Heinzia colleti'' from Colombia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | taxon = Pulchelliidae | authority = Hyatt, 1903 }}

'''''Pulchelliidae''''' is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family.<ref name=Wright>{{smallcaps|Wright, C. W.}} with {{smallcaps|Callomon, J.H.}} and {{smallcaps|Howarth, M.K.}} (1996), ''Mollusca 4 Revised, Cretaceous Ammonoidea'', vol. 4, in ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology'', Part L (Roger L. Kaesler ed.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, p. 111.</ref> It was previously classified as belonging to the superfamily Endemoceratoidea. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.<ref name=fa/>

==Subfamilies and genera== Source:<ref>{{cite journal |last= Vermeulen |first= Jean |date= 29 December 1995 |title= Nouvelle tripartition de la famille des ''Pulchelliidae (Ammonoidea)'' illustre par la description de trois especes des Alpes de Haute Provence |journal= Riviéra Scientifique |pages= 65–80}}</ref> * ''Buergliceratinae'' * ''Psilotissotiinae'' * ''Pulchelliinae'' (Vermeulen 1995) ** ''Nicklesia'' (Hyatt) ** ''Pulchellia'' (Uhlid) ** ''Gerhardtia'' (Hyatt) ** ''Coronites'' (Hyatt) ** ''Curiolites'' (Vermeulen) ** ''Heinzia'' (Sayn)

==Distribution== Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.<ref name=fa/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{cite journal |first= Jean |last= Vermeulen |url= http://geologie-alpine.ujf-grenoble.fr/articles/GA_1996__72__101_0.pdf |title= Origine, classification et évolution des Pulchellinae (Douville) 1911 emend. Vermeulen 1995 (Pulchelliidae, Endemoceratoidea)|journal=Géologie Alpine |date=1996 |volume= 71|pages= 101–115}} * {{cite web |url=https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4622402.html |publisher= mindat.org |title= Pulchelliidae|access-date= 15 June 2022}} *{{cite web |title= Pulchelliidae |publisher= Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) |url= https://eol.org/pages/52574143|access-date= 11 June 2023}} * {{cite book |last= Wright C.W. with J.H. Callomon and M.K. Howarth |year= 1996 |chapter= Mollusca 4 Revised: Cretaceous Ammonoidea |volume = 4 |title= Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L |editor = Roger L. Kaesler |place= Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas |publisher= The Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press |url= https://archive.org/details/treatiseoninvert0000join/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |url-access= registration |page = [https://archive.org/details/treatiseoninvert0000join/page/111/mode/2up?view=theater 111] |via= Internet Archive}}

Category:Ammonitida families Category:Endemoceratoidea Category:Cretaceous Morocco Category:Fossils of Morocco Category:Cretaceous France Category:Fossils of France Category:Cretaceous Spain Category:Fossils of Spain Category:Cretaceous Mexico Category:Fossils of Mexico Category:Ammonites of South America Category:Cretaceous Colombia Category:Fossils of Colombia