Biology:Dimeroceratoidea

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Short description: Extinct superfamily of molluscs

Dimeroceratoidea
Temporal range: Devonian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratina
Superfamily: Dimeroceratoidea
Hyatt 1884
Families
Synonyms

Dimerocerataceae

Dimeroceratoidea, formerly Dimerocerataceae, is one of six superfamilies in the goniatitid suborder Tornoceratina which lived during the Devonian. Five families are included, the Dimeroceratidae being the type family.

Gonitites, to which they belong, are primitive ammonites sensu lato, extinct shelled cephalopods more closely related to living animals like squids and octopodes than to similarly shelled nautiloids such as the modern genus Nautilus.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5277294 entry