Parashumarditida

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Parashumarditida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Shumarditaceae
Family: Parashumarditida
Boardman et al 1994
families
  • Aktubites
  • Eoshumardites
  • Eovidrioceras
  • Hypershumardites
  • Parashumardites

Parashumarditida is one of three families of the Goniatitina suborder. 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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