Biology:Diestoceratidae
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Short description: Extinct family of nautiloids
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mollusca |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Cephalopoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Nautiloidea |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Oncocerida |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Diestoceratidae Foeste, 1926 |
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Diestoceratidae is a family in the nautiloid cephalopod order Oncocerida with compressed, straight to faintly endogastic breviconic shells with a marginal siphuncle that contains discrete, irregular actinosphonate deposits.
The Diestoceratidae contains five known genera. They are:
- Diestoceras
- Danoceras
- Dowlingoceras
- Lyckholmoceras
- Suttonoceras
References
External links
- Diestoceratidae -Paleobio db
- Sweet, Walter C. 1964. Nautiloidea -Oncocera. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Soc. of America & Univ Kansas Press.
Wikidata ☰ Q5275040 entry
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