Gastrioceratidae

Taxobox
name = Gastrioceratidae
fossil_range =


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Ammonoidea
ordo = Goniatitida
subordo = Goniatitina
superfamilia = Gastriocerataceae
familia = Gastrioceratidae
familia_authority = Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya 1975
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
* Agastrioceras
* Cancelloceras
* Chaerogastrioceras
* Gastrioceras
* Monitoceras
* Owenoceras
* Quinnites
* Trettinoceras

Gastrioceratidae is one of five families of the Gastriocerataceae superfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopi, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

References

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