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Bashkortoceras

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Bashkortoceras
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Homoceratidae
Genus: Bashkortoceras
Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya 1971

Bashkortoceras is a genus belonging to the Gastrioceratoidea superfamily. 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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