Neodimorphoceratidae

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Neodimorphoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Neodimorphocerataceae
Family: Neodimorphoceratidae
Furnish & Knapp 1966
Genera
  • Cymoceras
  • Dimorphoceratoides
  • Neodimorphoceras
  • Pintoceras
  • Politoceras
  • Shuichengoceras

Neodimorphoceratidae is one of two families of the Neodimorphocerataceae 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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