Emilitidae

Taxobox
name = Emilitidae
fossil_range =


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Ammonoidea
ordo = Goniatitida
subordo = Goniatitina
superfamilia = Adrianitaceae
familia = Adrianitidae
subfamilia = Emilitidae
familia_authority = Leonova & Bogoslovskaya 1990
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
* Aricoceras
* Crimites
* Emilites
* Istycoceras
* Metacrimites
* Nevadoceras
* Pseudoemilites
* Veruzhites

Emilitidae is a subfamily of the Adrianitidae family. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

References

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