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Mimagoniatites

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Extinct genus of molluscs

Mimagoniatites
Temporal range: Early Devonian
Mimagoniatites bohemicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Agoniatitida
Family: Agoniatitidae
Subfamily: Mimagoniatitinae
Genus: Mimagoniatites
Eichenberg, 1930

Mimagoniatites is a genus of ammonoid cephalopod which lived during the early Devonian, regarded as belonging to the Agoniatitdae as a member of the subfamily Mimagoniatitinae.

The shell is discoidal, primarily evolute, becoming mildly involute in later growth stage, moderately to rapidly expanding. Whorl section of first two whorls approximately circular, subtrapezoidal in later whorls. Umbilicas perforated, protoconch swollen, not in contact with first whorl. Growth lines biconvex with prominent ventrolateral projections and a deep ventral sinus.

References

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  • Mimagoniatites in GONIAT online
  • Mimagoniatites, Paleobio db.
  • Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf, 1957. Paleozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L.
Taxon identifiers
Mimagoniatites


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