Mongoloceratidae

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Mongoloceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Popanocerataceae
Family: Mongoloceratidae
Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya 1978
Genera
  • Angrenoceras
  • Mongoloceras

Mongoloceratidae is one of two families of the Popanocerataceae superfamily. 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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