Almites

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Almites
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Marathonitaceae
Family: Marathonitidae
Subfamily: Marathonitinae
Genus: Almites
Toumansky 1941

Almites is a genus belonging to the Marathonitidae families. 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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