Quinnites
Quinnites is a genus of gonititid ammonites included in the gastrioceratacean family Reticuloceratidae known from the Carboniferous of the state of Arkansas, USA.[1]
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| Genus: | Quinnites Manger and Saunders, 1980 |
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).
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