Neoicoceratidae

Neoicoceratidae
Temporal range: Bashkirian to Kungurian 318.100–272.500 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Neoicoceratoidea
Family: Neoicoceratidae
Hyatt, 1900
Genera
  • Akiyoshiceras
  • Eoasianites
  • Mapesites
  • Neoicoceras
  • Trochilioceras

Neoicoceratidae 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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