The Strigoceratidae is a family in the ammonitid superfamily

Haploceratoidea Haploceratoidea, formerly Haplocerataceae, is an extinct superfamily of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the Ammonitida that unites three families, Strigoceratidae, Oppeliidae, and Haploceratidae, listed below. Haploceratoidea begins with all t ...

, restricted to the lower

Middle Jurassic The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from about 174.1 to 163.5 million years ago. Fossils of land-dwelling animals, such as dinosaurs, from the Middle Jurassic are relatively rare, but geological formations ...

, Bajocian stage, possibly derived from the Hammitoceratidae. The family was established and named by Buckman in 1924.

Description

The shells of the Strigoceratidae are compressed to oxyconic, with a narrow or minute umbilicus and simple or irregularly branched ribbing almost confined to the outer (ventral) half of the whorl sides. The sutures are moderately simple to complex, with a long umbilical lobe bearing a graded series of Auxiliaries.

References

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology'' (or ''TIP'') published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and co ...

, Part L Ammonoidea, (L171), Geological Society of America and University of Kansas press, 1964. Ammonitida families Haploceratoidea Bajocian first appearances Middle Jurassic extinctions {{Ammonitina-stub