Paraperrinitinae

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Paraperrinitinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Shumarditaceae
Family: Perrinitidae
Tharalson 1984
Subfamily: Paraperrinitinae
Genera
  • Mapirites
  • Metaperrinites
  • Nepirrites
  • Paraperrinites
  • Perrimetanites
  • Properrinites
  • Ripernites
  • Shyndoceras

Paraperrinitinae is one of two subfamilies of the Perrinitidae 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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