Aulacostephanidae

Aulacostephanidae Temporal range: Jurassic (Oxfordian-Tithonian), 160–150.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil shell of Rasenia cymodoce from Calvados (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Superfamily:	†Perisphinctoidea
Family:	†Aulacostephanidae Spath, 1924

Aulacostephanidae is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod family belonging to the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Upper Jurassic period, from the Oxfordian to Tithonian ages.

Genera within this family include:^[1][2]

• Aulacostephanus
• Pictonia
• Rasenia
• Ringsteadia

• JOHN K. WRIGHT The Aulacostephanidae (Ammonoidea) of the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary beds (Upper Jurassic) of southern England
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