Sinotitinae

Sinotitinae
Temporal range: Upper Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Subclass:Ammonoidea
Order:Goniatitida
Family:Dimeroceratidae
Subfamily:Sinotitinae
Chang, 1960
Genera
  • Sinotites
  • Sunites

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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