Araneites

Taxobox
name = Sporadoceratinae
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Ammonoidea
ordo = Goniatitida
subordo = Tornoceratatina
superfamilia = Prionocerataceae
familia = Prionoceratidae
subfamilia = Sporadoceratinae
genus = "Araneites"
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"Araneites" is a genus belonging to the Sporadoceratinae subfamily of the Prionoceratidae family, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopi, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

References

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl The Paleobiology Database] accessed on 10/01/07