Austroceratites

Austroceratites
Temporal range: Triassic
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ceratitida
Family: †Ceratitidae
Subfamily: †Ceratitinae
Genus: †
Wegner, 1957
Species

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Austroceratites is a genus of extinct shelled cephalopods that lived during the Triassic, included in ammonoid order Ceratitida. Within the Ceratitida, Autroceratites belongs in the family Ceratitidae and subfamily Ceratitinae.

Ceratitidae, in which Austroceratites is placed, is a mid Triassic family that has left evolute to involute, stoutly ribbed, discoidal shells with ceratitic sutures.

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