Aldanites

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Aldanites
Temporal range: L Penn (Morrowan)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Orulganitidae
Genus: Aldanites
Ruzhencev 1965

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

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 goniatitid superfamily.

References[edit]

  • Aldanites-Paleodb
  • Saunders, Work, and Nikolaeva 1999. Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, supplementary material [1]
  • 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.