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Mammitinae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Ammonitida

Rank
  
Subfamily

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Ammonoidea

Superfamily
  
Acanthoceratoidea

Mammitinae

Similar
  
Acanthoceratoidea, Mammites, Calycoceras, Acanthoceras, Fagesia

Mammitinae comprises a subfamily within the Acanthoceratidae (Ammonoidea) characterized by moderately to very evolute shells with rectangular to squarish whorl sections along with blunt umbilical and prominent inner and outer ventrolateral tubercles on sparse ribs that may be round and strong, sharp and narrow, or absent. The suture is somewhat simpler than that of the Acanthoceratinae. Range is restricted to the lower Turonian stage of the Upper Cretaceous.

Genera include:

Mammites Laube & Bruden, 1886 Benueites Reyment 1954 Metasigaloceras Hyatt, 1903 Pseudoaspidoceras Hyatt, 1903 Watinoceras Warren,1930

The inclusion of Kamerunoceras Reyment, 1940, is doubtful.

References

Mammitinae Wikipedia