Lyelliceratidae

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

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

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