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 endogastic breviconic shells with a marginal siphuncle that contains discrete, irregular actinosphonate deposits.
The Diestoceratidae contains five known genera. They are: