Kirsoceratidae

Kirsoceratidae is one of five families of the Tornoceratoidea superfamily, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

Kirsoceratidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Tornoceratoidea
Family: Kirsoceratidae
Arthaber 1911
Genera
  • Kirsoceras
  • Pernoceras
  • Protornoceras
  • Tornia

References


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