Emilitidae

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Emilitidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Adrianitaceae
Family: Adrianitidae
Leonova & Bogoslovskaya 1990
Subfamily: Emilitidae
Genera
  • Aricoceras
  • Crimites
  • Emilites
  • Istycoceras
  • Metacrimites
  • Nevadoceras
  • Pseudoemilites
  • Veruzhites

Emilitidae is a subfamily of the Adrianitidae family. 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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