Marathonitinae

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Marathonitinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Marathonitaceae
Family: Marathonitidae
Subfamily: Marathonitinae
Ruzhencev 1938
Genera
  • Aksuites
  • Almites
  • Cardiella
  • Eohyattoceras
  • Marathonites
  • Promarathonites
  • Pseudovidrioceras
  • Suakites

Marathonitinae is one of four subfamilies in 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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