Reticuloceratidae

Reticuloceratidae Temporal range: Pennsylvanian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Goniatitida
Superfamily:	†Gastrioceratoidea
Family:	†Reticuloceratidae Librovitch 1957
Subfamilies
Reticuloceratinae Surenitinae

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

Taxonomy

Family consists of 2 valid subfamilies:

• Reticuloceratidae

• Reticuloceratinae

• Agastrioceras
• Alurites
• Aphantites
• Arkanites
• Bilinguites
• Phillipsoceras
• Quinnites
• Reticuloceras
• Retites
• Tectiretites

• Surenitinae

• Gaitherites
• Marianoceras
• Melvilloceras
• Surenites
• Ugamites
• Verneuilites

References

• The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07