Jilingitinae

Jilingitinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Marathonitaceae
Family: Marathonitidae
Subfamily: Jilingitinae
Liang 1982
Genus
  • Jilingites

Jilingitinae is one of four subfamilies in the Marathonitidae families. 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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