Acrocanitidae is one of seven families of the Prionocerataceae families, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Goniatitida |
| Superfamily: | †Prionoceratoidea |
| Family: | †Acrocanitidae Korn, Bockwinkel, & Ebbighausen, 2007 |
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References edit
Wikispecies has information related to Acrocanitidae.
- Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, Volume 243, Number 2, February 2007, pp. 127–148(22)
- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07
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