Pinacoceratoidea

Pinacocerataceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Order:	Ceratitida
Superfamily:	Pinacocerataceae Tozer, 1994
Families
see text

The Pinacocerataceae are generally smooth, compressed, evolute to involute ammonoids from the Triassic, belonging to the Ceratitida, in which the suture is ammonitic, with adventitious and auxiliary elements.

As presently conceived, the Pinacocerataceae, named by Mojsisovics, 1879, combines six families; the:

• Pinacoceratidae
• Carnitidae
• Gymnitidae
• Isculitidae
• Klamathitidae
• Sagenitidae

In Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, the superfamily included only the Pinacoceratidae and Gymnitidae. Of the families more newly included in the Pinacocerataceae, the Carnitidae was removed from the Ceratitaceae and the Isculitidae from the Ptychitaceae. Klamathites was removed from the Carnitidae as type for the Klamathitidae. The Sagenitidae is based on the subfamily Sagenitinae of the tropitacean family Haloritidae.

Fossils have been found in Triassic sediments in the United States in California, Nevada, and Alaska; in Canada in British Columbia; in Europe widespread; in China, Russia, Afghanistan, and Vietnam.

References

• Pinacocerataceae Paleobiology DB
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. R. C. Moore (ed). Geological Society of America and Univ of Kansas press, 1957