Lyelliceratidae
| Lyelliceras Temporal range: Cretaceous | |
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| Fossil of Lyelliceras lyelli | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Acanthoceratoidea |
| Family: | Lyelliceratidae Spath 1921 |
Lyelliceratidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the family Gaudryceratidae.
These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period (109.0 to 94.3 Ma).[1]
Genera
- Lyelliceras Spath 1921
- Pseudobrancoceras Kennedy 2004
- Tegoceras Hyatt 1903
- Budaiceras Böse 1928
- Cenisella Delamette and Latil 1989
- Neophlycticeras Spath 1922
- Ojinagiceras Cobban and Kennedy 1989
- Paracalycoceras
- Stoliczkaia Neumayr 1875
- Zuluscaphites Van Hoepen 1955
References
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