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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: †Ammonoidea
Ordo: †Goniatitida
SubOrdo: Tornoceratatina
Superfamilia: Prionocerataceae

Familia: † Sporadoceratidae
Subfamilia: Sporadoceratinae
Genera: Araneites - Enkebergoceras - Felisporadoceras - Iranoceras - Maeneceras - Nothosporadoceras - Sporadoceras - Umbosporadoceras

Name

Sporadoceratinae Miller & Furnish, 1957
References

Miller, A.K. & Furnish, W.M. 1957. Phytogenetic system of Paleozoic Ammonoids. Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou Geol. 32(2): 49–64. Reference page.
The Paleobiology Database Accessed 11/23/08

Sporadoceratinae is one of two subfamilies of the Sporadoceratidae family, a member of the Goniatitida order. It is an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
References

The Paleobiology Database accessed on 1 October 2007

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