Goniatitina is one of two suborders included in the order Goniatitida; extinct Paleozoic ammonoid cephalopods only distantly related to the Nautiloidea.

Goniatitina
Fossil of Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Hyatt, 1884
Superfamilies

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Taxonomy edit

The Goniatitina contains 17 defined superfamilies, listed below.

References edit

  • 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 [1]
  • Goniatitina in GONIAT online [2]
  • suborder Goniatitina Hyatt 1884, Paleodb query, 4/18/14.