Muensteroceratidae

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Muensteroceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Pericyclaceae
Family: Muensteroceratidae
Librovitch 1957
Genera
  • Akeshakeceras
  • Beyrichoceratoides
  • Cluthoceras
  • Eoglyphioceras
  • Eurites
  • Itimaites
  • Muensteroceras
  • Terektytes

Muensteroceratidae is one of nine families of the Pericyclaceae superfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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