Goniatitina
{{Short description|Extinct suborder of molluscs}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|390|251.4}}Middle Devonian – Late Permian
| image = Goniatitidae - Goniatites bohemicus.JPG
| image_caption = Fossil of Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
| taxon = Goniatitina
| authority = Hyatt, 1884
|| subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies
| subdivision = See text
}}
Goniatitina is one of two suborders included in the order Goniatitida; extinct Paleozoic ammonoid cephalopods only distantly related to the Nautiloidea.
Taxonomy
The Goniatitina contains 17 defined superfamilies, listed below.
References
- Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf, 1957, Paleozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
- Saunders, Work, and Nikoleva 1999. Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary material. Science 22 October 1999: Vol. 286 no. 5440 pp. 760–763. Abstract [https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.286.5440.760]
- Goniatitina in GONIAT online [http://www.goniat.org/index.html]
- suborder [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=58396 Goniatitina] Hyatt 1884, [https://www.paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=classificationForm Paleodb] query, 4/18/14.
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