Muensteroceratidae

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Muensteroceratidae
Muensteroceras parallelum (ammonite).jpg
Muensteroceras parallelum, Early Carboniferous, Illinois
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Pericycloidea
Family: Muensteroceratidae
Librovitch, 1957
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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.

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