Goniatites

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Goniatites sp. fossil (Middle Devonian) founded in Morocco, in a laboratory of practices of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Corunna.
Goniatites sp. fossil (Middle Devonian) founded in Morocco, in a laboratory of practices of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Corunna.
Goniatites
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Goniatitaceae
Family: Goniatitidae
Subfamily: Goniatitinae
Genus: Goniatites

Goniatites is genus of the Goniatitaceae superfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopi, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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