Araneites

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| subclassis = Ammonoidea

| ordo = Goniatitida

| subordo = Tornoceratatina

| superfamilia = Prionocerataceae

| familia = Prionoceratidae

| subfamilia = Sporadoceratinae

| genus = Araneites

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Araneites is a genus belonging to the Sporadoceratinae subfamily of the Prionoceratidae family, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.