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Capriocornites

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Nautilida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Nautiloidea

Family
  
Rutoceratidae

Similar
  
Cenoceras, Allonautilus, Nautilida, Nautiloid

Capriocornites is a rutoceratid genus (Nautiloidea - Cephalopoda) from the Devonian, related to such genera as Rutoceras and Goldringia.

In some taxonomies (Manda & Turek, 2009) the Rutoceratidae are included in the Oncocerida rather than in the Nautilida

References

Capriocornites Wikipedia