Eothinitidae

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Eothinitidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Neoicocerataceae
Family: Eothinitidae
Ruzhencev 1956
Genera
  • Eothinites
  • Epiglyphioceras

Eothinitidae is one of eleven families of the Neoicocerataceae superfamily. 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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