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Flickia
Temporal range: Albian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Flickiidae
Subfamily: †Flickiinae
Genus: †Flickia
Pervenquiere, 1907
Type species
Flickia simplex
Other species
  • Flickia costellata
  • Flickia quadrata

Flickia is an ammonite genus from the Upper Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous.

Description

Flickia is a very small ammonite. Its shell varied in shape from subevolute to subinvolute. It was narrow, smooth, and had a rounded venter. Despite belonging to the most advanced order of ammonites, its suture was more similar to that of Goniatites and other primitive ammonites.

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