Aldanites

Aldanites is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the ammonoid order Goniatitida.

Aldanites
Temporal range: L Penn (Morrowan)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Goniatitida
Superfamily:
Schistocerataceae
Family:
Orulganitidae
Genus:
Aldanites

Ruzhencev 1965

Aldanites, named by Ruzhencev, 1965, is confined to the Lower Pennsylvanian Period (late Carboniferous) and is included in the Orulganitidae, a family in the Schistoceratacea, a gonititid superfamily.

References
    • Aldanites-Paleodb
    • Saunders, Work,and Nikolaeva 1999. Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, supplementary material
    • W. M. Furnish, et al. 2009. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised: Mollusca 4, Volume 2: Carboniferous and Permian Ammonoidea (Goniatitida and Prolecanitida) pp1–258.


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