Maximites is a genus of Late Carboniferous ammonoids. Adult specimens were the smallest known ammonoids, only at about 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter of shells.[1] Fossils are found in various Late Carboniferous marine strata in North America. Maximites is the sole genus of Maximitidae, one of two families of the Superfamily Pseudohaloritoidea, an important subgroup of the order Goniatitida.

Maximites
Temporal range: Atokan to Missourian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Superfamily: Pseudohaloritoidea
Family: Maximitidae
Ruzhencev 1960
Genus: Maximites
Miller and Furnish, 1957

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  1. ^ Nishiguchi, M.K., R. Mapes (2008). "Cephalopoda" (PDF). University of California Press. pp. 163–199.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)