Sporadoceratinae

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Sporadoceratinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Prionocerataceae
Family: Sporadoceratidae
Subfamily: Sporadoceratinae
Bartzsch & Weyer 1988
Genera
  • Araneites
  • Enkebergoceras
  • Felisporadocera
  • Iranoceras
  • Maeneceras
  • Nothosporadocera
  • Sporadoceras
  • Umbosporadoceras

Sporadoceratinae is one of two subfamilies of the Sporadoceratidae family, a member of the Goniatitida order. 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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