Parodoceratidae

Parodoceratidae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Tornoceratoidea
Family: Parodoceratidae
Petter, 1959
Genera
  • Croyites
  • Parodiceras
  • Trevoneites
  • Wedekindella

Parodoceratidae is one of five families of the Tornoceratoidea superfamily, a member of the Goniatitida order, first proposed by Germaine petter in 1959. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.