Acrocanitidae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Goniatitida |
Superfamily: | † Prionoceratoidea |
Family: | † Acrocanitidae Korn, Bockwinkel, & Ebbighausen, 2007 |
Genera | |
Acrocanitidae is one of seven families of the Prionocerataceae families, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.