Metalegoceratidae

Metalegoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Neoicoceratoidea
Family: Metalegoceratidae
Ruzhencev, 1956
Genera
  • Bransonoceras
  • Juresanites
  • Metalegoceras
  • Parametalegoceras
  • Pseudometalegoceras
  • Pseudoschistoceras
Synonyms

Spirolegoceratidae

Metalegoceratidae is one of eleven families of the Neoicoceratoidea superfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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