Uhligella is an extinct cephalopod genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the ammonoid subclass and included in the Desmoceratidae

Desmoceratidae

Desmoceratidae is a family belonging to the ammonite subclass. They are an extinct group of ammonoids, shelled cephalopods related to squid, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.-References:* accessed on 10/01/07...

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Uhligella is described as being high-whorled with a broadly or narrowly rounded venter, in which the early whorls have strong or weak sinuous ribs but the outer whorls are smooth.

Uhligella may have given rise to Beudanticeras

Beudanticeras

Beudanticeras is an extinct cephalopod genus from the Cretaceous period belonging to the ammonoid subclass and included in the family Desmoceratidae....

and is preceded by another related genus, Zurcherella

Zurcherella

Zurcherella is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass....

References

• Arkell, et al,1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Ammonoidea). Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press.