Reticuloceratidae

Reticuloceratidae is one of five families of the Gastrioceratoidea 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.

Reticuloceratidae
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian[1] 317.0–313.0 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Gastrioceratoidea
Family: Reticuloceratidae
Librovitch 1957
Subfamilies
  • Reticuloceratinae
  • Surenitinae

Taxonomy

Family consists of 2 valid subfamilies:[1]

  • Reticuloceratidae
  • Reticuloceratinae
  • Surenitinae
  • Gaitherites
  • Marianoceras
  • Melvilloceras
  • Surenites
  • Ugamites
  • Verneuilites
gollark: Neural interfaces do that.
gollark: Yep.
gollark: Well, it might sleep, I forget.
gollark: Places concrete powder. Constantly. With no sleeps.
gollark: I only did the concrete crafter.

References

  1. cite web |url=http://goniat.org/showTax.html?TaxId=tax00000000000000000000000005541 | title=Goniat database | accessdate=17 October 2016


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.