Lyelliceratidae Temporal range:
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Fossil of Lyelliceras lyelli | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Superfamily: | †Acanthoceratoidea |
Family: | †Lyelliceratidae Spath, 1921 |
Lyelliceratidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the superfamily Acanthoceratoidea.
These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period (109.0 to 94.3 Ma).[1]