Biology:Lyelliceratidae

Short description: Extinct family of ammonites

Lyelliceratidae Temporal range: Cretaceous PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of Lyelliceras lyelli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Superfamily:	†Acanthoceratoidea
Family:	†Lyelliceratidae Spath, 1921

Lyelliceratidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the superfamily Acanthoceratoidea.

These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period (109.0 to 94.3 Ma).

Genera

• Lyelliceras Spath, 1921
• Pseudobrancoceras Kennedy, 2004
• Tegoceras Hyatt, 1903
• Budaiceras Böse, 1928
• Cenisella Delamette and Latil, 1989
• Neophlycticeras Spath, 1922
• Ojinagiceras Cobban and Kennedy, 1989
• Paracalycoceras
• Stoliczkaia Neumayr, 1875
• Zuluscaphites Van Hoepen, 1955

References

Wikidata ☰ Q20721546 entry