Imitoceratinae

Imitoceratinae
Imitoceras rotatorium. Early Carboniferous, Rockford Limestone, Rockford, Illinois (USA).
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Family: †Prionoceratidae
Subfamily: †
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.

Imitoceras rotatorium (Mississippian). Seymour, Indiana (USA)

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