Roinghites

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

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|368|366.8|ref={{cite web |url=http://goniat.org/showTax.html?TaxId=tax00000000000000000000000006791 | title=Goniat database | accessdate=20 October 2015}}Korn D, Klug C (2002) Ammoneae Devonicae. Fossilium Catalogus 138. Backhuys, Leiden|Famennian}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| subclassis = Ammonoidea

| ordo = Goniatitida

| subordo = Tornoceratina

| superfamilia = Dimeroceratoidea

| familia = Cheiloceratidae

| subfamilia = Raymondiceratinae

| genus = Roinghites

| genus_authority = Korn, 2002

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Roinghites is genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian).

Species and distribution

  • Roinghites aktubensis Bogoslovskii, 1960: ca 370.0 - 367.6 mya of Kazakhstan (South Urals). Originally named as Raymondiceras aktubense
  • Roinghites bottkei Korn, 2002: ca 367.6 - 366.8 mya of Germany (Rhenish mountains). Type species of genus.

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