''Sabaudiella'' is a genus of

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 ...

s. It was described by Vasicek and Hoedemaeker in 2003, and the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

is ''S. sabaudianus'', which was originally assigned to the genus '' Ancyloceras'' by Pictet and de Loriol in 1858. A new species, ''S. riverorum'', which existed during the early

Barremian The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 125.77 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma (Historically, this stage was placed at 129.4 million to approximately 125 million years ago) It is a ...

of what is now

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, was described by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta and Peter F. Rawson in 2012. ''Sabaudiella'' is also a genus of plants in family

convolvulaceae Convolvulaceae (), commonly called the bindweed, bindweeds or morning glory, morning glories, is a Family (biology), family of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species. These species are primarily herbaceous vines, but also include trees, sh ...

Species

* '' Sabaudiella sabaudianus'' (Pictet & de Loriol, 1858) * '' Sabaudiella riverorum'' Aguirre-Urreta & Rawson, 2012

References

External links

''Sabaudiella''
at the

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q23837652 Ammonite genera Fossil taxa described in 2003 Cretaceous Argentina