Cardioceratidae is an extinct ammonite family belonging to the superfamily Stephanoceratoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Middle-Late Jurassic periods.[2]

Cardioceratidae
Temporal range: Middle-Late Jurassic, 166.1–152.1 Ma Callovian-Kimmeridgian
Cardioceras persecans from France
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Stephanoceratoidea
Family: Cardioceratidae
Siemiradzki, 1891
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