Sinotitinae
Appearance
Sinotitinae Temporal range: Upper Devonian
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Goniatitida |
Family: | †Dimeroceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Sinotitinae Chang, 1960 |
Genera | |
Sinotitinae is one of three subfamilies of the Dimeroceratidae, a member of the Goniatitida, an extinctorder of ammonoid cephalopods from the Paleozoic.
The two comprised genera, Sinutites and Sunites have broad, crescent shaped whorl sections, but one, Sinutites has a dorsal siphuncle while in the other, Sunites the siphuncle is ventral.
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