Xenoporadoceratinae

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Xenoporadoceratinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Prionocerataceae
Family: Sporadoceratidae
Subfamily: Xenoporadoceratinae
Korn 2002
Genera
  • Erfoudites
  • Xenosporadoceras

Xenoporadoceratinae 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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