Anthracoceratites

Anthracoceratites
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Dimorphocerataceae
Family: Dimorphoceratidae
Subfamily: Glyphiolobinae
Genus: Anthracoceratites

Anthracoceratites is an extinct genus of the Dimorphoceratidae family. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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