Muensteroceratidae

Muensteroceratidae
Muensteroceras parallelum, Early Carboniferous, Illinois
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Goniatitida
Superfamily:	†Pericycloidea
Family:	†Muensteroceratidae Librovitch, 1957
Genera
Akeshakeceras Beyrichoceratoides Cluthoceras Eoglyphioceras Eurites Itimaites Muensteroceras Terektytes

Muensteroceratidae is one of nine families of the Pericycloidea 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.

References

• The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07