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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 removed from Gastrioceras (Branneroceras).

References

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


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