Perrinitinae

Perrinitinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Shumarditaceae
Family: Perrinitidae
Miller & Furnish 1984
Subfamily: Perrinitinae
Genera
  • Perrinites
  • Subperrinites

Perrinitinae is one of two subfamilies of the Perrinitidae superfamily. 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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