Imitoceratinae
Appearance
Imitoceratinae | |
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Imitoceras rotatorium. Early Carboniferous, Rockford Limestone, Rockford, Illinois (USA). | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Goniatitida |
Family: | †Prionoceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Imitoceratinae Ruzhencev, 1950 |
Genera | |
Imitoceratinae is one of six subfamilies of the Prionoceratidae family, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
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References
[edit]- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07