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Holcodiscidae

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Phylum:Mollusca
Subclass:†Ammonoidea
Order:†Ammonitida
Holcodiscidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Spitidiscus species from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Superfamily: †Desmoceratoidea
Family: †Holcodiscidae
Spath, 1923
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Holcodiscidae is an ammonite family placed in the superfamily Desmoceratoidea.[1][2]

Moderately involute with rounded, rectangular, or depressed whorl section; straight or sinuous, fine, dense ribs typically continuing over venter and may be periodically truncated by oblique, enlarged ribs, with or without umbilical, lateral and ventrolateral tubercles. Suture rather simple.[2][3]

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