Gonioloboceratidae

Gonioloboceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Goniolobocerataceae
Spath 1934
Family: Gonioloboceratidae
Genera
  • Gonioloboceras
  • Gonioloboceratoides
  • Mescalites
  • Okafujiceras

Gonioloboceratidae is one of three families of the Goniolobocerataceae 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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