''Kosmoclymenia'' is a genus in the

ammonoid 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 ...

order

Clymeniida Clymeniida is an order of ammonoid cephalopods from the Upper Devonian characterized by having an unusual dorsal siphuncle. They measured about in diameter and are most common in Europe, North Africa, and South China but are known from North ...

, in the family

Kosmoclymeniidae Kosmoclymeniidae is a family in the Ammonoidea, ammonoid order Clymeniida. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. Subfamilies and genera * ''Kosmoclymeniinae'' Korn and Price 1987 ** ''Kosmoclymenia'' Schindewolf 1949 ** ''Linguaclymenia'' Ko ...

Species

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Description

Shells of these extinct cephalopods can reach a maximum diameter of . They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...

of China, Germany and Morocco.

References

Fossils of Germany Late Devonian ammonites Fossils of China Fossils of Morocco Famennian life Famennian genus first appearances Famennian genus extinctions Ammonite genera Clymeniina {{Clymeniida-stub