Ammonellipsites | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Goniatitida |
Suborder: | Goniatitina |
Superfamily: | Pericyclaceae |
Family: | Pericyclidae |
Subfamily: | Ammonellipsitinae |
Genus: |
Ammonellipsites Parkinson 1822 |
Ammonellipsites is a genus belonging to the Ammonellipsitinae subfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoids, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.