Acrocanitidae

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Acrocanitidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Prionocerataceae
Family: Acrocanitidae
Korn Korn, Bockwinkel, & Ebbighausen; 2007
Genus
  • Jdaidites

Acrocanitidae is one of seven families of the Prionocerataceae families, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopi, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

[edit] References

  • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, Volume 243, Number 2, February 2007 , pp. 127-148(22)
  • The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07
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