Parkinsonia (ammonite)

Parkinsonia
Temporal range:
Fossil of Parkinsonia parkinsoni from Great Britain, on display at the Natural History Museum, London
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Parkinsoniidae
Subfamily: Parkinsoniinae
Genus: Parkinsonia
Bayle, 1878

Parkinsonia is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Parkinsoniidae.

These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived from the Bajocian age to the Bathonian age of the Middle Jurassic.