Biology:Dimorphoceratidae

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Short description: Extinct family of molluscs

Dimorphoceratidae
Temporal range: Late Paleozoic
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Dimorphoceratoidea
Family: Dimorphoceratidae
Hyatt 1884
Subfamilies

Dimorphoceratidae is one of two families included in the Dimorphoceratoidea, a superfamily of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the Goniatitida that lived during the Late Paleozoic. They are dimorphocerataceans in which the external lateral lobes and prongs of the ventral lobe are bifid. The shells are strongly involute, subdiscoidal to lenticular.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5277750 entry