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Diestoceratidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Oncocerida

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Nautiloidea

Rank
  
Family

The Diestoceratidae comprises a family in the nautiloid cephalopod order Oncocerida with compressed, straight to faintly endogastic breviconic shells with a marginal siphuncle that contains discrete, irregular actinosphonate deposits.

The Diestoceratidae contains five known genera. They are:

  • Diestoceras
  • Danoceras
  • Dowlingoceras
  • Lockholmoceras
  • Suttonoceras
  • References

    Diestoceratidae Wikipedia