Lyelliceratidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | †Acanthoceratoidea |
| Family: | †Lyelliceratidae Spath, 1921 |
Lyelliceratidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the superfamily Acanthoceratoidea.
These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period (109.0 to 94.3 Ma).[1]
Genera[]
- Lyelliceras Spath, 1921
- Kennedy, 2004
- Hyatt, 1903
- Böse, 1928
- Delamette and Latil, 1989
- Spath, 1922
- Cobban and Kennedy, 1989
- Neumayr, 1875
- Zuluscaphites Van Hoepen, 1955
References[]
- ^ a b Fossilworks
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- Ammonitida families
- Acanthoceratoidea
- Cretaceous ammonites
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