Berkhoceratidae

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Berkhoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Dimorphocerataceae
Family: Berkhoceratidae
Librovitch 1957
Genus
  • Kazakhoceras

Berkhoceratidae is one of two families of the Dimorphocerataceae superorder. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopi, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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