Xenoceltitidae

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Xenoceltitidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Superfamily: Xenodiscoidea
Family: Xenoceltitidae
Spath, 1930
Genera

Xenoceltitidae are evolute, generally ribbed, upper Lower Triassic Ceratitida with ceratitic or goniatitic sutures; formerly included in the Noritaceae but now placed in the Xenodiscaceae.

The Xenoceltitidae are derived from the Ophiceratidae.

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Noritoidea, formerly Noritaceae, is an extinct superfamily of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite order Ceratitida.

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