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Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Roinghites
Temporal range: Famennian Preκž’ κž’ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratina
Superfamily: Dimeroceratoidea
Family: Cheiloceratidae
Subfamily: Raymondiceratinae
Genus: Roinghites
Korn, 2002

Roinghites is genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian).

Species and distribution

  • Roinghites aktubensis Bogoslovskii, 1960: ca 370.0 - 367.6 mya of Kazakhstan (South Urals). Originally named as Raymondiceras aktubense
  • Roinghites bottkei Korn, 2002: ca 367.6 - 366.8 mya of Germany (Rhenish mountains). Type species of genus.

References

  1. ^ "Goniat database". Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  2. Korn D, Klug C (2002) Ammoneae Devonicae. Fossilium Catalogus 138. Backhuys, Leiden
Taxon identifiers
Roinghites


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