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Alurites

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Alurites
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Reticuloceratidae
Subfamily: Reticuloceratinae
Genus: Alurites
Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya, 1975

Alurites is a genus belonging to the Gastriocerataceae 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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