Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Sonniniidae
Synonym: Waagenia Bayle 1878 [replaced name]
Full reference: H. Douville. 1879. Presentation de l'Atlas du IVe volume de l'explication de la Carte geologique de la France, par M. Bayle. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France, ser. 3 7:91-92
Parent taxon: Sonniniinae according to J. Sandoval 2022
See also Galácz 2015, Howarth 2013, Sepkoski 2002, Westermann 1969 and Zatoń 2010
Sister taxa: Pseudoshirbuirnia, Shirbuirnia, Sonninites
Subtaxa: Sonninia (Alaskinia) Sonninia (Euhoploceras) Sonninia (Papilliceras) Sonninia (Poecilomorphus) Sonninia (Sonninia) Sonninia altecostata Sonninia alternata Sonninia argentinica Sonninia bodenbenderi Sonninia crassa Sonninia crassinuda Sonninia espinazitensis Sonninia fascicostata Sonninia intumescens Sonninia mirabilis Sonninia nuda Sonninia stelzneri Sonninia subdeltafalcata Sonninia subtrigonata Sonninia tuxedniensis Waagenia parrasensis
Type: Waagenia propinquans
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Argentina (3 collections), Australia (4), Canada (15: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (10), China (1), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Morocco (9), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (9), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (15: Alaska, California, Oregon)
Total: 75 collections including 140 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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