Yinoceras

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Yinoceratinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Pseudohaloritaceae
Family: Pseudohaloritidae
Subfamily: Yinoceratinae
Genus: Yinoceras
Zhao 1954

Yinoceras is a genus belonging to the Yinoceratinae subfamily of the Pseudohaloritidae 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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