Goniatitidae Temporal range: Early Mississippian - Late Permian |
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Fossil of Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Goniatitida |
Suborder: | Goniatitina |
Superfamily: | Goniatitoidea |
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Goniatitidae Haan 1825 |
Subfamily | |
Goniatitidae is one of three families included in the ammonoid cephalopod superfamily Goniatitoidea, known from the Lower Mississippian to the Upper Permian. They have sutures that form 8 lobes and characteristically lack sculpture. The ventral lobe, as for the superfamily, is bifurcated.