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Goniatites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Ammonoidea
    Order:  
Goniatitida
    Suborder:  
Goniatitina
    Superfamily:  
Goniatitoidea
    Family:  
Goniatitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Goniatites cyclolobus PHILLIPS, 1836, p. 237
    Type Species:  
[*Conchiliolithus Nautilites sphaericus martin, 1809, p. 15 (nomen nudum because of nonbinominal derivation)


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Fossil Image
Fig. 122, 4a-c. *P. cyclolobus (Phillips), England, a-b, X 1, c, diameter approximately 30 mm (Foord & Crick, 1897).


Synonyms

Ammonites sphaericus; Glyphioceras; Sphenoceras; ? Progoniatites; Goniatites; Progoniatites


Geographic Distribution

England, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Germany, Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Algeria, Russia and Kazakhstan (Southern Urals), ?Middle Asia, USA (Utah, Arkansas, ?Nevada), Thailand (Patalung)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Mississippian (upper Visean)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
66
    Beginning Date:  
335.91
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Mississippian (upper Visean)
    Ending International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
330.34


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References



Museum or Author Information

Foord & Crick, 1897