Ascocerida

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Ascocerida
Fossil range: Ordovician to Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
(unranked) Neocephalopoda
Order: Ascocerida
Kuhn, 1949

Ascocerida is an order of extinct nautiloid cephalopods. The shell, slightly exogastrical, is morphologically very reduced.

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