Raymondiceratinae
Appearance
Raymondiceratinae Temporal range: Upper Devonian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Goniatitida |
Family: | †Cheiloceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Raymondiceratinae Furnish, 1957 |
Genera | |
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Raymondiceratinae is a subfamily of Upper Devonian cheiloceratid goniatites in which the sutures have 4 distinct lobes and the growth lines are convex. The subfamily includes three genera.
- Raymondiceras. named by Schindewolf, 1934 which has a subglubular shell with small closed umbilici and sutures with an incipient lobe in the first lateral saddle. Type genus.
- Melonites named by Bogoslovskii 1971, which was moved from Cheiloceratidae to Raymondiceratineae by Korn & Klug, 2002.
- Roinghites named by Korn 2002, which has a thick discoidal shell, with closed umbilici in the adult; fine, convex growth lines and a very shallow, weakly and widely rounded lateral lobe.
References
- Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
- Goniat-Raymondiceratinae