Muensteroceratidae is one of nine families of the Pericycloidea 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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| Muensteroceras parallelum, Early Carboniferous, Illinois | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Goniatitida |
| Superfamily: | †Pericycloidea |
| Family: | †Muensteroceratidae Librovitch, 1957 |
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References
edit- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07
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