''Boreotrachyceras'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of ammonite cephalopod, belonging to the

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

Ceratitida Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception being the phylloceratids which gave rise to the great diversity of post Triassic ammoni ...

. The family to which ''Boreotrachyceras'' belongs,

Trachyceratidae The Trachyceratidae is an extinct family of ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods. The Trachyceratidae makes up part of the superfamily Trachyceratoidea along with such families as the Buchitidae, Distichitidae, Dronovitidae and Noridiscitidae. ...

, has more or less involute, highly ornamented shells and ceratitic to ammonitic sutures.

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* Trachyceratidae Triassic ammonites Carnian genera Molluscs described in 2012 Prehistoric cephalopod genera Ceratitida genera {{Ceratitida-stub