Agoniatites
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Agoniatites obliquus, from Srbsko, Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague) | |
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Genus: | Agoniatites Meek (1877) |
Agoniatites is a genus of primitive ammonoids belonging to the order Agoniatitida family Agoniatitidae.
Species of this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivore shelled ammonoids. They lived in the Eifelian and Givetian ages of the middle Devonian period, which occurred 385.3-397.5 million years ago.
Vanuxemi agoniatites is a rare species in this group which is the only ammonoid found in the Hamilton Group (Mahantango Formation) in Pennsylvania and New York.
Fossil distribution
[edit]Devonian of Algeria, Canada (Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic, Morocco, Russia, United States (Alaska, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania)
Species
[edit]- Agoniatites annulatus
- Agoniatites bicanaliculatus
- Agoniatites costulatus
- Agoniatites kayseri Wedekind
- Agoniatites nodiferus Hall
- Agoniatites obliquus Whidborne
- Agoniatites occultus
- Agoniatites vanuxemi
Gallery
[edit]- Agoniatites nodiferus
- Agoniatites vanuxemi (Fossil discovered by Michael Tomczyk at a 385 million year old Devonian formation near Deer Lake, Pennsylvania in 2013)
References
[edit]- Zipcodezoo
- Biolib
- The Paleobiology Database
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopodes
- Wikimedia Commons