''Fagesia rudra'' is a small, subglobular
ammonite
Ammonoids are extinct, (typically) coiled-shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (which comprise the clade Coleoidea) than they are to nautiluses (family N ...
(suborder
Ammonitina
Ammonitina comprises a diverse suborder of Ammonoidea, ammonite cephalopods that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of the Mesozoic Era. They are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which the ...
) belonging to the
vascoceratid family. This species lived during the
Turonian
The Turonian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS' geologic timescale, the second age (geology), age in the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch, or a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the Upper Cretaceous series (stratigraphy), ...
stage of the late Cretaceous, 92-88 Ma ago.
References
*W.J. Kennedy, C.W. Wrigh
Vascoceratid ammonites from the type turonianA New Ammonite Fauna of the Lower Turonian of Mexico
Global Names
Acanthoceratoidea
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