Acrocanitidae
Appearance
Acrocanitidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Goniatitida |
Superfamily: | †Prionoceratoidea |
Family: | †Acrocanitidae Korn, Bockwinkel, & Ebbighausen, 2007 |
Genera | |
Acrocanitidae is one of seven families of the Prionocerataceae families, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
References
[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Acrocanitidae.
- Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, Volume 243, Number 2, February 2007, pp. 127–148(22)
- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07