Shumarditidae

Shumarditidae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Superfamily: †Shumarditoidea
Family: †
Plummer & Scott 1937
Genera
  • Postaktubites
  • Preshumardites
  • Pseudaktubites
  • Shumardites

Shumarditidae is one of three families of the Shumarditoidea 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.

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