| Flickia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific 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 | |
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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.
References
- Murray, John W. Atlas of Invertebrate Macrofossils. New York: Wiley, 1985. Print. ISBN 0470200847
- Flickia at Fossilworks
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