Welleritidae
Appearance
Welleritidae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Goniatitida |
Superfamily: | †Schistoceratoidea |
Family: | †Welleritidae Schmidt 1929 |
Genera | |
Welleritidae is one of five families of the Schistoceratoidea superfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoids, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
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Subfamilies
[edit]References
[edit]- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07