Lyelliceratidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the superfamily Acanthoceratoidea.

Lyelliceratidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Fossil of Lyelliceras lyelli
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Acanthoceratoidea
Family: Lyelliceratidae
Spath, 1921

These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period (109.0 to 94.3 Ma).[1]

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