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Cladiscitidae

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Phylum:Mollusca
Subclass:†Ammonoidea
Order:†Ceratitida
Cladiscitidae
Temporal range: 247.2 –201.6 Ma[1]
Polished fossil shell of Cladiscites species from Austria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ceratitida
Family: †Cladiscitidae
Zittel 1884
Genera[1]

Cladiscitidae is an extinct family of cephalopods in the ammonoid order Ceratitida. These nektonic carnivores lived during the Triassic.[1]

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