Welleritidae

Welleritidae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Superfamily: †Schistoceratoidea
Family: †
Schmidt 1929
Genera

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

Subfamilies

  • Axinolobinae
  • Welleritinae
    • Aqishanoceras
    • Eowellerites
    • Faqingoceras
    • Wellerites
    • Winslowoceras

References


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