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.

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