Zadelsdorfia

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Gattendorfiinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Prionocerataceae
Family: Gattendorfiidae
Subfamily: Gattendorfiinae
Genus: Zadelsdorfia
Weyer 1972

Zadelsdorfia is an extinct genus belonging to the Gattendorfiinae subfamily, 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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