goniatites
{{Short description|Extinct genus of molluscs}}
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| fossil_range = from Late Devonian to Late Triassic, {{fossil range|409.1|205.6}}[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13727 The Paleobiology Database]
| image = Goniatitidae - Goniatites species.JPG
| image_alt = Fossil of "Goniatite" species
| image_caption = Fossil of Goniatites species
| taxon = Goniatites
| authority = De Haan, 1825
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| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
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Goniatites is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae. Hibernicoceras and Hypergoniatites are among related genera.
Species
Description
The shell is generally globose with an open but narrow umbilicus, the surface commonly reticulate resulting from longitudinal lirae crossing transverse striae. The ventral lobe of the suture is rather narrow with a median saddle about or little less than half the height of entire lobe. The first lateral saddle is subangular to angular.
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found widespread in North America, Eurasia, and north Africa. In particular they have been found in the Triassic of Italy, United States, in the Permian of United States, in the Carboniferous of the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Morocco, United Kingdom, United States, in the Mississippian of United States, as well in the Devonian of the Czech Republic, Spain, United States.
Gallery
File:Goniatites crenistria.jpg|Goniatites crenistria from Poland
File:Goniatitidae - Goniatites bohemicus.JPG|Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria
File:Goniatites sp.1 - Devonico medio.JPG|Goniatites species from Morocco
References
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- Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf, 1957. Paleozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America.
- Genus Goniatites in [http://www.goniat.org/index.html GONIAT]
- Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda]
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Category:Carboniferous ammonites
Category:Fossils of the Czech Republic
Category:Late Devonian first appearances
Category:Late Devonian animals
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