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Definition of Goniatites

Goniatite
Goniatite Go"ni*a*tite, n. [Gr. ? angle.] (Paleon.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

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- goniatites were limited to environments of normal-marine salinity—as appears to be the case for all cephalopods throughout their history. Goniatites are...
- Czech Republic, Spain, United States. Goniatites crenistria from Poland Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria Goniatites species from Morocco The Paleobiology...
- and Cretaceous ammonoids, but extends back all the way to the Permian. Goniatites plebeiformis showing Goniatitic suture Protrachyceras pseudoarchelonus...
- Goniatites bohemicus is a species of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae. These slow-moving...
- Goniatites crenistria is a species of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae. These fast-moving...
- productid and spiriferid brachiopods, bivalves, forams, ammonoids (including goniatites), and orthoceridans all abundant. Crown reptiles arise from earlier diapsids...
- At most of the fossiliferous levels in the Namurian beds the number of goniatites and Bivalvia are usually very high with the diversity of species low....
- straight-s****ed and curved-s****ed forms becoming increasingly rare. Goniatite ammonoids such as Aenigmatoceras are common. Trilobites are rarer than...
- several species of goniatite have been named in his honour including Gigantoproductus bisati, Cravenoceratoides bisati, Goniatites bisati and Chaenocarciola...
- Cretaceous. Other fossil cephalopods include baculites, nautiloids and goniatites. Belemnoids possessed a central rostrom/guard made of aragonite and with...