Rhymmoceratidae

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Rhymmoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Neoglyphiocerataceae
Family: Rhymmoceratidae
Ruzhencev 1957
Genera
  • Ophilyroceras
  • Rhymmoceras

Rhymmoceratidae is one of six families of the Neoglyphiocerataceae 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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