- Balvia
Taxobox
name = Balvia
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Cephalopod a
subclassis =Ammonoidea
ordo =Goniatitida
subordo =Tornoceratatina
superfamilia =Prionocerataceae
familia =Prionoceratidae
subfamilia =Balviinae
genus = "Balvia"
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subdivision ="Balvia" is a genus belonging to the
Balviinae subfamily of thePrionoceratidae family , a member of theGoniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelledcephalopods related tosquid s,belemnite s, octopi, andcuttlefish , and more distantly to thenautiloid s.References
* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl The Paleobiology Database] accessed on 10/01/07
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