Neostacheoceratidae

Neostacheoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Cyclolobaceae
Family: Neostacheoceratidae
Toumansky, 1939
Subfamily

Neostacheoceratidae is one of three families of the Cyclolobaceae 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.

The following genera are included:

Glassoceratinae Ruzhencev, 1960
Nostacheoceratinae Toumansky, 1939

References


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