Goniatitina
| Goniatitina | |
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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 Hyatt, 1884 |
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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.
- Adrianitaceae
- Cyclolobaceae
- Dimorphocerataceae
- Gastriocerataceae
- Goniatitaceae
- Goniolobocerataceae
- Marathonitaceae
- Neodimorphocerataceae
- Neoglyphiocerataceae
- Neoicocerataceae
- Nomismocerataceae
- Pericyclaceae
- Popanocerataceae
- Schistocerataceae
- Shumarditaceae
- Somoholitaceae
- Thalassocerataceae
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
- Goniatitina in GONIAT online
- suborder Goniatitina Hyatt 1884, Paleodb query, 4/18/14.
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