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| Family: | Trachyceratidae Haug, 1894
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The Trachyceratidae is an extinct family of ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods.
The Trachyceratidae makes up part of the superfamily Trachyceratoidea along with such families as the Buchitidae, Distichitidae, Dronovitidae and Noridiscitidae. The Trachyceratoidea is also known by the junior synonym Trachycerataceae.