Somoholitaceae

Taxobox
name = Somoholitaceae
fossil_range =


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Ammonoidea
ordo = Goniatitida
subordo = Goniatitina
superfamilia = Somoholitaceae
superfamilia_authority = Ruzhencev 1938
subdivision_ranks = families
subdivision =
* Clistoceratidae
* Dunbaritidae
* Glaphyritidae
* Pseudoparalegoceratidae
* Somoholitidae
* Stenolaphyritidae

Somoholitaceae 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

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