†subfamily Eothinitinae Ruzhentsev 1956 (ammonite)
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Alternative spelling: Eothinitidae
Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev. 1956. Nizhnepermskie ammonity yuzhnogo Urala II. Ammonity Artinskogo yarusa. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 60:1-271
Parent taxon: Metalegoceratidae according to Z. R. Zhou 2017
See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 1989 and Leonova 2002
Sister taxa: Clinolobinae, Metalegoceratinae
Subtaxa: Eothinites Epiglyphioceras Glenisterites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of China (6 collections), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (9), the Russian Federation (5), Tajikistan (30), United States (4: Texas)
Total: 58 collections including 69 occurrences