Biology:Pericycloidea

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Short description: Extinct superfamily of molluscs

Pericycloidea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Pericycloidea
Librovitch 1957
Families
Synonyms

Pericyclaceae

Pericycloidea is one of seventeen superfamilies of the Goniatitina suborder. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopodes, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7168423 entry