Berkhoceratidae

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Berkhoceratidae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Dimorphoceratoidea
Family: Berkhoceratidae
Librovitch, 1957
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Berkhoceratidae is one of two families of the Dimorphoceratoidea superorder. 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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