Sinotitinae Temporal range: Upper
Devonian
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Scientific 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.