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Lyelliceratidae

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Extinct family of ammonites

Lyelliceratidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of Lyelliceras lyelli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Acanthoceratoidea
Family: Lyelliceratidae
Spath, 1921

Lyelliceratidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the superfamily Acanthoceratoidea.

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

Genera

References

  1. ^ Fossilworks
Taxon identifiers
Lyelliceratidae


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