Kirsoceratidae

Kirsoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Tornocerataceae
Family: Kirsoceratidae
Arthaber 1911
Genera
  • Kirsoceras
  • Pernoceras
  • Protornoceras
  • Tornia

Kirsoceratidae is one of five families of the Tornocerataceae Superfamily, a member of the Goniatitida order. 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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