Cheiloceratinae

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.

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

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