Parodoceratidae

Parodoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Tornocerataceae
Family: Parodoceratidae
Petter 1959
Genera
  • Croyites
  • Parodiceras
  • Trevoneites
  • Wedekindella

Parodoceratidae is one of five families of the Tornocerataceae Superfamily, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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