Biology:Pericycloceratidae

Short description: Extinct family of molluscs

Pericycloceratidae Temporal range: Bashkirian to Kungurian 318.100–272.500 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Goniatitida
Superfamily:	†Neoicoceratoidea
Family:	†Pericycloceratidae Zhao & Zheng, 1977
Genera
Eolegoceras Pericycloceras

Pericycloceratidae 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.

References

• "Pericycloceratidae (synonym)". Fossilworks. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?taxon_no=93074&is_real_user=1&action=taxonInfo. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7168426 entry