Quinnites

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Quinnites is a genus of goniatitid ammonites included in the gastrioceratoidean family Reticuloceratidae known from the Carboniferous of the state of Arkansas, USA.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13864 Quinnites] in Fossilworks

Description

Quinnites can be recognized by its thickly discoidal shell with a wide umbilicus and double pronged ventral lobe with a median saddle about half as high as the entire lobe. Umbilical ribs are common. May have spiral ornamentation, constrictions, or ventral groove.[http://www.goniat.org/index.html Quinnites in Gonait on Line]

Taxonomy

Quinnites, named by Manger and Saunders 1980, contains two species, Quinnites henbesti and

Quinnites textum, both removed from Gastrioceras (Branneroceras).

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