Diestoceratidae
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| Diestoceratidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
| Order: | †Oncocerida |
| Family: | †Diestoceratidae Foeste, 1926 |
| Genera | |
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Diestoceratidae is a family in the nautiloid cephalopod order Oncocerida with compressed, straight to faintly endogastric breviconic shells with a marginal siphuncle that contains discrete, irregular actinosiphonate deposits.[1][2]
The Diestoceratidae contains five known genera. They are: