Stenolaphyritidae

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Stenolaphyritidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Somoholitaceae
Family: Stenolaphyritidae
Genera
  • Euroceras
  • Paraschartymites
  • Physematites
  • Pseudoschartymites
  • Rhadinites
  • Schartymites
  • Stenoglaphyrites
  • Subitoceras
  • Zephyroceras

Stenolaphyritidae is one of six families of the Somoholitaceae superfamilia. 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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