Gattendorfiidae

Gattendorfiidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Superfamily: †Prionoceratoidea
Family: †
Bartzsch & Weyer, 1987
Subfamilies
A fossil of Pseudarietites from Dzikowiec, Poland.
A fossil of Pseudarietites from Dzikowiec, Poland.

Gattendorfiidae is one of seven families of the superfamily Prionoceratoidea, 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.

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