- Alpinites
Taxobox
name = Alpinites
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Cephalopod a
subclassis =Ammonoidea
ordo =Goniatitida
subordo =Tornoceratatina
superfamilia =Tornocerataceae
familia =Posttornoceratidae
subfamilia =Discoclymeniinae
genus = "Alpinites"
genus_authority =Bogoslovsky 1971
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subdivision ="Alpinites" is a genus belonging to the
Discoclymeniinae subfamily , a member of theGoniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelledcephalopods related tosquid s,belemnite s, octopi, andcuttlefish , and more distantly to thenautiloid s.References
* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl The Paleobiology Database] accessed on 10/01/07
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