Lyelliceratidae

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

Lyelliceratidae
Temporal range:
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

These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period (109.0 to 94.3 Ma).[1]

Genera
  • Lyelliceras Spath, 1921
  • Pseudobrancoceras Kennedy, 2004
  • Tegoceras Hyatt, 1903
  • Budaiceras Böse, 1928
  • Cenisella Delamette and Latil, 1989
  • Neophlycticeras Spath, 1922
  • Ojinagiceras Cobban and Kennedy, 1989
  • Paracalycoceras
  • Stoliczkaia Neumayr, 1875
  • Zuluscaphites Van Hoepen, 1955

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References
  1. Fossilworks


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