Cheiloceratinae

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Cheiloceratinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Prionocerataceae
Family: Cheiloceratidae
Subfamily: Cheiloceratinae
Frech 1897
Genera
  • Cheiloceras
  • Dyscheiloceras
  • Paratorleyoceras
  • Staffites
  • Torleyoceras

Cheiloceratinae is one of two subfamilies of the Cheiloceratidae family, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopi, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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