Cheiloceratinae

Cheiloceratinae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Family: †Cheiloceratidae
Subfamily: †
Frech, 1897
Genera
  • Cheiloceras
  • Dyscheiloceras
  • Paratorleyoceras
  • Staffites
  • Torleyoceras

Cheiloceratinae is one of two subfamilies of the Cheiloceratidae 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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