Quinnites

Quinnites
Temporal range: Carboniferous
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Family: Reticuloceratidae
Genus: Quinnites
Manger and Saunders, 1980

Quinnites is a genus of gonititid ammonites included in the gastrioceratacean family Reticuloceratidae known from the Carboniferous of the state of Arkansas, USA.[1]

Description

Quinnites can be recognized by its thickly discoidal shell with a wide umbilicus and double pronged ventral lobe with a midian saddle about half as high as the entire lobe. Umbilical ribs are common. May have spiral ornamentation, constrictions, or ventral groove.[2]

Taxonomy

Quinnites, named by Manger and Saunders 1980, contains two species, Quinnites henbesti and Quinnites textum, both remeoved from Gastrioceras (Branneroceras).

References

  1. ↑ Quinnites in Fossilworks
  2. ↑ Quinnites in Gonait on Line


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