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Lyelliceratidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Ammonitida

Rank
  
Family

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Ammonoidea

Superfamily
  
Acanthoceratoidea

Lyelliceratidae

Similar
  
Hoplitidae, Acanthoceratoidea, Desmoceratidae, Lyelliceras, Pulchelliidae

Lyelliceratidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the family Gaudryceratidae.

These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period (109.0 to 94.3 Ma).

Genera

  • Lyelliceras Spath 1921
  • Pseudobrancoceras Kennedy 2004
  • Tegoceras Hyatt 1903
  • Budaiceras Böse 1928
  • Cenisella Delamette and Latil 1989
  • Neophlycticeras Spath 1922
  • Ojinagiceras Cobban and Kennedy 1989
  • Paracalycoceras
  • Stoliczkaia Neumayr 1875
  • Zuluscaphites Van Hoepen 1955
  • References

    Lyelliceratidae Wikipedia