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Sinotitinae

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Sinotitinae
Temporal range: Upper Devonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Dimeroceratidae
Subfamily: Sinotitinae
Chang, 1960
Genera

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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