| Cheiloceratinae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Goniatitida |
| Family: | †Cheiloceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Cheiloceratinae Frech, 1897 |
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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.
References
Wikispecies has information related to Cheiloceratinae.
- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07
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