Prolobitidae

Taxobox
name = Prolobitidae
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Ammonoidea
ordo = Goniatitida
subordo = Tornoceratatina
superfamilia = Dimerocerataceae
familia = Prolobitidae
familia_authority = Wedekind 1913
subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies
subdivision =
* Prolobitinae
* Raymondoceratinae

Prolobitidae is one of three families of the Dimerocerataceae Superorder, 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.

References

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl The Paleobiology Database] accessed on 10/01/07