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Stereoplasmoceratidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Orthocerida

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Nautiloidea

Rank
  
Family

Stereoplasmoceratidae

Stereoplasmoceratidae is an extinct family of actively mobile aquatic carnivorous cephalopods belonging to the subclass Nautiloidea endemic to what would be Asia during the Ordovician living from 490—457.5 mya, existing for approximately 32.5 million years.

Taxonomy

Stereoplasmoceratidae was named by Kobayashi (1934). It was assigned to Pseudorthocerataceae by Teichert et al. (1964).

References

Stereoplasmoceratidae Wikipedia


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