Austroceratites
| Austroceratites Temporal range: Triassic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ceratitida |
| Family: | Ceratitidae |
| Subfamily: | Ceratitinae |
| Genus: | Austroceratites Wegner, 1957 |
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Austroceratites is an extinct shelled cephalopod genus that lived during the Triassic, included in ammonoid order Ceratitida. Within the Ceratitida, Autroceratites belongs in the family Ceratitidae and subfamily Ceratitinae.
Ceratitidae, in which Austroceratites is placed, is a mid Triassic family that has left evolute to involute, stoutly ribbed, discoidal shells with ceratitic sutures.
References
Austroceratites entry in The Paleobiology Database accessed 10 July 2012