Imitoceratinae

Imitoceratinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Prionocerataceae
Family: Prionoceratidae
Subfamily: Imitoceratinae
Ruzhencev, 1950
Genera
  • Imitoceras
  • Irinoceras
  • Triimitoceras

Imitoceratinae is one of six subfamilies of the Prionoceratidae family, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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