Discoclymeniinae

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Discoclymeniinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Tornocerataceae
Family: Posttornoceratidae
Subfamily: Discoclymeniinae
Bogoslovsky 1962
Genera

Discoclymeniinae is one of two subfamilies of the Posttornoceratidae 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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