Aricoceras
Appearance
| Aricoceras | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Goniatitida |
| Family: | †Adrianitidae |
| Subfamily: | †Adrianitinae |
| Genus: | †Aricoceras Ruzhentsev 1950 |
Aricoceras is an extinct genus of the Adrianitidae family. 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
[edit]- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07