Desmoceratidae

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Desmoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Family: Desmoceratidae
Genera
  • Abrytusites
  • Beudanticeras
  • Damesites
  • Desmoceras
  • Freboldiceras
  • Hauericeras
  • Kennicottia
  • Mesopuzosia
  • Pachydesmoceras
  • Parapuzosia
  • Puzosia

Desmoceratidae is a family belonging to the ammonite subclass. They are an extinct group of ammonoids, shelled cephalopods related to squid, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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