Pericyclinae

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Pericyclinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Pericyclaceae
Family: Pericyclidae
Subfamily: Pericyclinae
Hyatt 1900
Genera
  • Asiacyclus
  • Bouhamedites
  • Caenocyclus
  • Goniocycloides
  • Goniocyclus
  • Hammatocyclus
  • Neopericyclus
  • Orthocyclus
  • Parahammatocyclus
  • Pericyclus
  • Polaricyclus
  • Rhiphaeocyclus
  • Rotopericyclus

Pericyclinae is one of two subfamilies of the Pericyclidae 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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