Sporadoceratidae

Sporadoceratidae
Sporadoceras specimen. A goniatite from devonian of Morocco.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Goniatitida
Suborder:
Tornoceratina
Superfamily:
Prionoceratoidea
Family:
Sporadoceratidae

Korn et al., 2003
Subfamilies

Sporadoceratidae is one of seven families of the [[ Prionoceratoidea]] 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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