Maximites

Maximites
Temporal range: Atokan to Missourian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratatina
Superfamily: Pseudohaloritoidea
Family: Maximitidae
Ruzhencev 1957
Genus: Maximites

Maximites is a genus of Late Carboniferous ammonoids. The tiny fossil shells (adult diameter averaging about one centimeter) are found in various Late Carboniferous marine strata in North America. Maximites is the sole genus of Maximitidae, one of two families of the Superfamily Pseudohaloritoidea, an important subgroup of the order Goniatitida .

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