Ammonellipsites | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Goniatitida |
Family: | † Pericyclidae |
Subfamily: | † Ammonellipsitinae |
Genus: | † Ammonellipsites Parkinson 1822 |
Ammonellipsites is a genus belonging to the Ammonellipsitinae subfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoids, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.