Arcanoceras is a genus belonging to the Eogonioloboceratidae family. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
Arcanoceras | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Goniatitida |
Family: | †Eogonioloboceratidae |
Genus: | †Arcanoceras Ruzhentsev, 1965 |
References
edit- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07