Delepinoceratidae

Delepinoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Goniatitoidea
Haan 1825
Family: Delepinoceratidae
Genera
  • Delepinoceras
  • Platygoniatites

Delepinoceratidae is one of three families in the Goniatitoidea superfamily. 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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