Lyelliceras Temporal range: Cretaceous |
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Fossil of Lyelliceras lyelli | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Ammonitida |
Superfamily: | Acanthoceratoidea |
Family: |
Lyelliceratidae Spath 1921 |
Lyelliceratidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the family Gaudryceratidae.
These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period (109.0 to 94.3 Ma).