Spirolegoceratidae

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Spirolegoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Neoicocerataceae
Family: Spirolegoceratidae
Nassichuk 1970
Genera
  • Gobioceras
  • Spirolegoceras
  • Sverdrupites

Spirolegoceratidae is one of eleven families of the Neoicocerataceae 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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