†family Mosquoceratidae Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Mosquoceratidae

Alternative spelling: Mosquioceratidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy. 1954. Nizhnepermskie svernutye i sognutye Nautiloidei yuzhnogo Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 50:1-150

Parent taxon: Pleuronautiloidea according to D. Korn 2025

See also Laptikhovsky et al. 2013, Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 and Shimanskiy 1967

Sister taxa: Aktubonautilidae, Foordiceratidae, Gzheloceratidae, Metacoceratidae, Pleuronautilidae, Rhiphaeoceratidae

Subtaxa: Articheilus Leonardocheilus Mosquoceras

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Type: Mosquoceras

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Permian of Kazakhstan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: New Mexico)

• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (4)

Total: 9 collections including 10 occurrences

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