Thalassoceratidae

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Thalassoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Thalassocerataceae
Family: Thalassoceratidae
Genus

Thalassoceratidae is one of two 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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